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Originally intended for forcing a card, but soon adopted to other magical purposes. The principle was known as early as 1584 when it was applied to the flick book, which Sam Sharpe asserts was the basis of the long-and-short card Svengali Deck. Whatever its inspiration, the Svengali Deck was invented by Burling Hull, patented by him in 1909, and marketed by him in 1910. Pirated by W.D. LeRoy who apparently renamed it Svengali, adopting the name of the fictitious evil hypnotist in George du Maurier's then current best-selling novel, Trilby (1894).

An improved...

The Comprehensive Guide to Making Money Pitching Svengali Decks

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been made on selling the humble Svengali Deck and yet few people ever learned the inner secrets of how to pitch the deck successfully. This DVD fills that shortage.

Don Driver pitched for twenty-five years all over the country. He learned his pitch from S. David Walker, the Grand old Man of Svengali pitching who has been at it since the early 1940s. Mr. Walker learned from Mickey MacDougall, the creator of the Svengali pitch.

Explained in detail is a pitch that has been polished and...

Here, Chris Wardle explores the use of long and short cards (Svengali Deck style) for mental magic presentations. Whilst initially he gives some background to the Svengali deck and how to make and handle one, some routines use variants on the deck and several don't use playing cards at all. There are thirteen routines from Chris plus some additional commentary and a bonus routine from publisher Paul Hallas. Chances are after reading this you'll not think of the Svengali deck in the same way again.

Since the appearance of this booklet (his third) Chris authored Magic For Everyone (2006) and...

This is a new effect from Devin Knight's recent East Coast lecture tour. It uses a special Svengali deck in a way that magicians will never suspect. So you know, you will need to own or buy a Svengali Deck and gimmick it to do this trick. Take this to your next magic club meeting and puzzle the members.

EFFECT: The performer shows a deck of cards and mixes them. He invites a spectator to stop him as he deals the cards face down on the table. The person can stop him anywhere in the deal, there are no restrictions. The performer deals until the person says stop. The performer shows the card...

An excellent work on the Svengali Deck, including drawings and photos.

• Mechanics Of Svengali Deck
• Handling The Svengali Deck
• Main Points To Remember
• Running The Cards
• Double Lift
• The Riffle Shuffle
• The Overhand Shuffle
• The Fan
• The Spread
• The Drop
• Effects With Svengali Deck
• Stabbing Trick No. 1
• Stabbing Trick No. 2
• Stuthard’s Svengali Subtlety
• Methods Of Switching Deck To Ordinary Cards
• Suggested Routine With The Svengali Deck
• Finally

1st edition 1948, 15 pages; PDF 13 pages.

The Comprehensive Guide to Making Money Pitching Svengali Decks

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been made on selling the humble Svengali Deck and yet few people ever learned the inner secrets of how to pitch the deck successfully. This DVD fills that shortage.

Don Driver pitched for twenty-five years all over the country. He learned his pitch from S. David Walker, the Grand old Man of Svengali pitching who has been at it since the early 1940s. Mr. Walker learned from Mickey MacDougall, the creator of the Svengali pitch.

Explained in detail is a pitch that has been polished and...

Make money at magic shows, fairs, carnivals, or simply entertain your audience with the Pitchman's Svengali Routine. Now you, too, can add extra income at your shows by demonstrating and selling Svengali Decks, using this carefully constructed routine. Built along the time-honored comedy sales pitch, as used by medicine men and carny hucksters, this routine includes full patter and presentation so not only is the audience entertained, but the spectators are also primed to buy.

In this revised and updated version, you also get wholesale sources and other valuable information to help ensure...

The Svengali deck of cards is a specially prepared deck of playing cards (Poker-sized or Bridge-sized) that can be used by magicians or entertainers to perform various tricks. The deck and the tricks performed with it are assisted by its unique design and require almost no skill. It is based on a very old principle of entertaining deception and confidence game manipulation.

The cards of the deck can be flipped or riffled to create the illusion that the deck is completely ordinary. It can even be apparently mixed and shuffled. The trick involves a spectator choosing a card from the deck and...

Twenty-five pages of previously unpublished information on successful pitching – tips, ideas, and insights from highly experienced pitchmen. What to wear, details on the joint, and more. A valuable addition to the Don Driver Svengali DVD on pitching the Svengali and the Don Driver Interview.

1st edition 2009, PDF 25 pages.

This exclusive book has now been republished as an ebook. Encyclopaedic in scope, with notes on making, handling, pitching, and performing in a variety of situations.

Contents

• Handling the Svengali Deck
• Pitching the Svengali Deck
• About the Tricks
• Impromptu
• Almost Impromptu
• Multi-Method Classics
• Novelty Revelations
• Things going wrong, and sucker effects
• Apparatus Required
• Special Decks
• Publicity, Promotion, Spectacle
• Using sleights and moves
• Miscellaneous
• The Last Word

1st edition 1999, 181 pages.

Muchas páginas de información inédita sobre el éxito de los lanzamientos: consejos, ideas y opiniones de lanzadores muy experimentados. Qué hay que llevar, detalles sobre la articulación y mucho más. Un valioso complemento del Don Driver Svengali DVD sobre el lanzamiento del Svengali y la Don Driver Interview.

1ª edición 2010, PDF 32 páginas.

The Svengali Deck is an ingenious magic deck of cards. You can learn over 110 amazing tricks and routines. Some of the tricks you will be able to do:

• Show a normal deck - then change all the cards to the previously selected card.
• Seal a card in an envelope - then have spectator pick the card in the envelope.
• Spectator stabs the deck - the selected card is where the person inserts the blade.
• The selected card appears in your pocket or anywhere else.
• The card that was selected appears anyplace where the spectator cuts into the deck.
• and much more

This recording gives all the secrets of grafting or pitching. Walt reveals the secrets that enabled him to earn a handsome living pitching such items as Svengali decks, the coin and glass, three card trick, and other tricks of the grafter's trade. You will find everything from the grafter's own language and terminology, to the pitches, and how to make the products.

Walt Lees is a born pitchman. His voice draws you in. It plays with your mind, you are getting interested, intrigued, fascinated, excited, until you can't hold it anymore - you must have this trick - you buy it, and the pitchman...

This ebook holds extremely valuable information for anybody who would like to become a pitchman or grafter who sells Svengali decks and other items. Even if you do not sell as a pitchman, but perform on the street or other public venues you will learn quite a bit from Walt Lees.

Some of the points discussed are:

• Which magic tricks are suitable for pitching?
• Types of pitching
• Earnings and rewards
• Requirements of a good pitchman
• Styles of pitching
• Choosing a good site
• Peek selling times
• What to have with you
• Dealing with complaints, hecklers, pilferers, non-buyers, aggro merchants,...

This is a multi-use rugged manual corner rounder that produces round corners in three sizes:

• 3 mm (1/8")
• 5 mm (3/16")
• 8 mm (5/16")

The 5 mm rounding is great for corner shorts....

• ... his thoughts
• A person touches an object without the mentalist seeing it, the mentalist still can find out who has touched the object
• Synchronized drinks
• Improvised partners
• Psychokinetic touch (3 methods), you can touch a person at a distance
• Stop Heartbeat
• Invisible deck
• Si Stebbins Deck
• Svengali Deck
• Carbon paper
• Peek wallet
• wallet for mentalists
• TV methods, preshow, partners, hypnosis
• Bending metal, keys, spoons, forks, different methods
• Cold reading
• practical script ready for use
• Pseudo Hypnosis
• Hypnosis, what is hypnosis, hypnotic induction, hand glued to the table, amnesia...

Moves, routines, and stories around the Svengali deck.

"Okay, I'm impressed!!! Your book on The Long and the Short of It is wonderful. I'm still working on a few of the moves that I never dreamed were possible with a Svengali Deck. Excellent Routine!!! You've definitely put in the time and have the expertise with this trick to be called a Master. You get 2 big thumbs way up for your book." - Doug Howe

"Mark Lewis has spent a considerable amount of time pitching Svengali decks. He has written a useful and succinct manuscript on the subject. There is no padding. The routine Mark explains...

• ... - Hanns Thielemann
• Eine magische "Wendung" - Rolf Andra
• Das Palmieren - Rolf Andra
• Das "Brain Wave" (Gehirnwellen)-Spiel - George Armstron, Skuldano
• Tricks aus "Triks" und "De Magier"
• Wir blättern für Sie heute im Abracadabra
• Wer soll das bezahlen...? Dr. Klaus G. Müller - Jo Kerr
• Das Svengali-Kartenspiel - Hans-Gerhard Stumpf
• Von der Arbeit der Gruppen
• Programmablauf des Leipziger Kongresses 1961
• Magische Randnotizen

• Wir stellen vor: Kalanag - Die neue Kalanag-Schau
• Kommunique der Sitzung des Zentralausschusses des MZ der DDR vom 27. und 28. Mai 1961 in Leipzig ...

• ... ich den Sechskantentrick vor - Akimo
• Die Gedankenkarte - Dieter Arnold
• Kalenderblatt: Dieter Arnold: John Olms
• Kalenderblatt: Adi Kaufmann
• 40 Jahre Ortszirkel "John Olms" Meißen - H. Odparlik
• Horoskop 1997 - D. Brettschneider
• Comedy Corner - Crato
• Tips, Kunststücke und Routinen mit dem Svengali-Deck - Fritz Topp
• Internationale magische Notizen - Reinhard Müller
• Tagebuchnotizen
• Das neue Fachbuch
• Leserforum

Vom Vorwort:

• Vorwort
• Rot — blau — rot
• Herz—As—Story
• Svengali-Routine
• Anhang: Hindu-Shuffle

Erstausgabe 1989, 19 Seiten; erste digitale Ausgabe 2018, 19 Seiten.

• ... Wildwestmanieren
  • Magie erfinden
  • Wie's gemacht wird
• 4. Lektion: Die afghanischen Ringe und der durchschnittene Turban
  • Wie man die afghanischen Ringe herstellt
  • Wie man den Turbantrick vorführt
• 5. Lektion: Eine gezogene Karte entdecken
  • I: FORCIEREN
  • Forcieren und Forcierspiele
  • Das Svengali-Spiel
  • Forciergriffe: Der Fächer
  • Forciergriffe: Das Abziehen
  • Forcieren nach Stanley Collins
  • Der Telefontrick
• 6. Lektion: Eine gezogene Karte entdecken
  • II: FESTSTELLUNGSMETHODEN
  • Falschmischen
  • Der Durchstoß
  • Das Spähen
  • Der Buchstabiertrick
  • Das konische Spiel
  • Die lange Karte ...

• ...
  1. ...
  2. Non plus ultra
  3. Jede berührte Karte sofort zu nennen
  4. Die verschwundenen Damen
  5. Die wandernden Karten
  6. Ein guter Fang
  7. Der Helfer aus der vierten Dimension
  8. Eine Liebestragödie
  9. Vorherige Bestimmung einer gewählten Karte
  10. Das unergründliche Rätsel
  11. Die Karte auf Reisen
  12. Eine Überraschung
  13. Die Svengali-Wunderkarten
  14. Die Brautschau
  15. Kolorieren en gros
  16. Die wandernden Points
  17. Die gehorsame Karte
  18. Von Tasche zu Tasche
  19. Cagliostros Vermächtnis

Erstausgabe 1921, 80 Seiten; PDF 59 Seiten.

• ... mit einer Hand
• 27. Die guterzogene Karte
• 28. Die überflüssige Karte
• 29. Non plus ultra
• 30. Die Planeten als Nothelfer
• 31. Der findige Dritte
• 32. Magische Zahlen
• 33. Karten-Changement
• 34. Grenzwächter und Schmuggler
• 35. Überall und nirgends
• 36. Magische Probe
• 37. Das Svengali-Wunder
• 38. Das Joghi-Wunder
• 39. Das Wunderspiel
• 40. Merkwürdiges Zusammentreffen
• 41. Verbesserte Kinematographie
• 42. Die Glückszahl
• 43. Der ausgeprägte Farbensinn
• 44. Überraschende Art, eine ins Spiel gemischte Karte zum Vorschein zu bringen
• 45. Neue Anwendung magischer Zahlen ...

1. ... Green
13. Poor Man's "Hypnotic Joker" - Dr. Raymond Beebe
14. Book Profiles - Edgar Heyl
    • Panorama of Magic - Christopher
    • The Magic of Numbers - Toquet
    • The Jerry Lewis Book of Tricks and Magic - Lewis
    • The Impossible - Dick Gardner
    • In Print
    • Recently Reviewed
14. 75 Tricks with a Svengali Deck - Al Stevenson - advertisement
14. Showstoppers with Cards - advertisement
15. Betcha, 2 - Norman Houghton
    • Solution to No. 1
15. Patter Lines - Cliff Green
15. Trick Tip - Will Dew - Art Lyle
16. Endorsed Dealers Offerings

17. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume XX, Number 3 - November 1962...