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The Svengali deck has been a pitchman item for years. Gerald admires the skill of the Svengali pitchman. They handle the deck and do amazing tricks to sell the deck to bystanders. But Gerald's writing is not a treatise on "pitching" the Svengali. His purpose in using the Svengali is different from the pitchman's.

In Power of the Svengali, Gerald explores how to handle the Svengali as an ordinary deck, not as a special gaffed deck to sell. The power of the Svengali comes from its ability to produce tricks not possible except by advanced sleight of hand. Even skillful sleight of hand can...

• ... to make your scripts better.
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• Some of magic's best principles explain all in one ebook: One Ahead, Equivoque, Svengali, Rough and Smooth, Dual Reality, Preshow, Gilbreath, Multiple Outs and more.
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LAST CARD STANDING - A simple trick using three glasses.

FIRST CRUSH - A pair of swimming goggles act as X-Ray specs to reveal the chosen card....

This collection includes more effects and a fun balloon item to get some laughs. Remember, these are all self-working and if you have a Svengali deck, a few duplicates etc, you'll be able to do most of these straight away. Good fun, and great value at just ten bucks!

1st edition 2023, PDF 21 pages.

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...

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   53. online video file available - Derren Brown - Ted Talk - Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head
56. Chamber of Secrets - John Gaughan as told to Dustin Stinett
    • Billiard Ball Dropper
58. Conjuring - Jim Steinmeyer
    • The Deconstructed Card Duck
62. Cardopolis - David Britland
    • Three Malini Mysteries
66. The Expert at the Kids' Table - David Kaye
    • Kiddie See, Kiddie Do?
68. Notizen - Alexander de...

This ebook features 28 of Mel's mentalism ideas, each of which is commercial and entertaining.

It also has an interesting essay on getting the basics right as well as three further pages of great one-liners to use in your act. Mel's methods are practical and uncomplicated - he has a real gift for getting directly to the nub of what is needed to created any desired effect - and so there will be many ideas that you will soon be including in your repertoire.

• Introduction
• Svengali Postcards
• Any Time Impromptu Book Test
• My Drink Prediction
• Blackout Gag
• Minor Miracle with M&Ms
• The Magic...

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      • ... DVD set) – Doug Conn
      • Essence (4 DVD set) – Miguel Angel Gea
      • Essentials in Magic (series) – Mental Photography Deck - Daryl
      • Essentials in Magic (series) – Invisible Deck - Daryl
      • Essentials in Magic (series) – Stripper Deck - Daryl
      • Essentials in Magic (series) – Svengali Deck - Daryl
      • Pinky Swear (download) – Doug Conn
   87. Books Reviewed by Eric mead
       • The Definitive Sankey 1, 2, and 3 – Andi Gladwin & Joshua Jay
       • Confidences – Roberto Giobbi
   90. Tricks Reviewed by David Oliver
       • BOOM – Mick Valenti
       • LemoNegg – Jeremy Pei
       • Ultimate Control (MP3 player with radio frequency remote) – Brian “Happie” Foshee
       • Angel – Christian Knudsen
       • In The Frame – Mark Elsdon
96. Advertisers Index
96. Subscription Information ...

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  • ...The Hypnotized Rope
  • Grant And Maillow's Ropes Of Bengal
  • Herman Hanson's Climax Rope Trick
  • Percy Abbott's "Easy-Do" Rope Trick
  • U. F. Grant's Amazing Rope Trick
• Chapter 9: The Hindoo Rope Trick
  • Rupert Slater's Moth And Rope
  • The Pocket Hindoo Rope Trick
  • The Vanishing Boy
  • Dunninger's East Indian Rope Trick
  • Svengali's Rope Climbing Trick Of India
  • J. K. Wright's Indian Rope Trick
  • David Devant's Hindoo Rope Trick

1st edition 1941, 498 pages; PDF 232 pages.

An easy and effective multiphase routine with a Svengali deck. A spectator is correct continually in finding a previously selected card which the performer underlines with the punch line "How Right You Are."

From the introduction:

A series of clever little tricks, made possible with the specially printed miniature cards as originally supplied by Supreme Magic.

• Forcing a Card
  • One-Way Force Deck
  • Svengali Deck
  • Rough And Smooth Deck
  • Classic Fan Force
  • Henry Christ Method
  • The Handkerchief Force
  • Simplicity Force
  • Another One
• Effect No. 1. A Prediction Gag
• Effect No. 2. The Card Knife
• Effect No. 3. Card Catching
• Effect No. 4. A Betcha
• Effect No. 5. Wise-Guy
• Effect No. 6. Crystal Gazing Extra-Ordinary
• Effect No. 7. Caxton’s Dream
• Effect No. 8. Sixteen Cards
• Effect No. 9. World’s Fastest Pass
• Effect...

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.

• ... Illusion
• Night Club Hindu Rope
• Oriental Cabinets
• Packing Box Escape
• Paradox Hatbox Illusion
• Phonovision
• Pile Driver Illusion
• Pillory Escape
• Queen of the Ribbon Cage
• Satan's Seat
• Screen and Tabouret Illusion
• Seeing Thru a Girl
• Sorcerer's Cellar
• Stage Thermometer
• Surrealistic Art
• Svengali's Rope Trick
• Television Production
• Tent of the Sultan
• Thurston Show Requirements
• Totable Totem-Pole
• Vanishing Boy
• Vanishing Boy and Auto
• Vanishing Dog
• Walking Thru a Ribbon
• Walking Thru a Steel Plate
• Wonderful Vanish
• Zombi Girl

1st edition 1965, PDF 99 pages.

International award-winning Australian magician Joel Howlett was a very close friend to the late Jim McKeague. Jim was not only a magician but also a magic historian and author of The Best 200 Tricks With A Svengali Deck.

Joel has taken the time to describe three of the routines ('Jack And His Dog', 'Ten Card Poker' and 'The Three Card Trick') that he and Jim worked on together. Joel has also attempted to include some of the advice and tips Jim lovingly shared with him. The result was this PDF book.

PLEASE NOTE - The ebook is aimed at the intermediate magician as some of the more basic card moves are not described in detail.

1st edition...

• ... 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 ...

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  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.

1. ...
   • ...
   • Houdini Card - Snyder
24. More New Tricks and Reviews
    • Patriotic Release
    • Two Way Nu Idea Forcing Deck - Snyder
    • Rolling a Cigarette by Magic - Brema

25. The Bat - Number Five Extra - n.d. - 4 pages
25. Impromptu Card Routines
27. Card Tricks - Special Decks
    • Mene-Tekel Pack
    • Svengali Deck
    • Stripper Deck
    • Brain Wave Deck
    • Out Of This World
    • St. Leon Deck
    • Nu-Idea Deck
    • 400 Tricks You Can Do - Howard Thurston
    • Secrets of Magic and card Tricks - Blackstone
    • Deucy
    • Magic Card System
    • Thirty-Two Impromptu Card Tricks
    • Stacks and Stacks of Cards - Val...

• Vorwort
• Ein kleines Kartenprogramm
  • Eröffnungstrick
  • Rot-blau-rot
  • Wild Card
  • Herz As-Story
• Besondere Kartenspiele
  • Above Suspicion (Blankospiel)
  • Ein 'besonderer' Kartentrick (gelegtes Kartenspiel 32 Blatt)
  • Perfekte Vorhersage (Blankorückenspiel)
  • Svengali Routine (Svengali Deck)
  • Karten-Telepathie (Drei Spiele mit verschiedenen Rückenmustern)
  • Die Macht der Gedanken (Rau-Glatt-Spiel und Svengali Deck)
• Trickgeräte und Trickkarten
  • Gitterkarte (Routine mit einem Blankospiel)
  • Eine unglaubliche Kartenwanderung in drei Aufzügen
  • Plexi-Gefängniskarte...

• ... deck and appears in another.
• THE TELE-PSYCHIC-OMATIC DECK: A card thought of by the spectator vanishes from the deck leaving a double blank and the three mates.
• ENCEPHALONIC PREDESTINATION: The magician predicts two selected cards.
• OCTA PREDESTINATION: The magician predicts two selected cards.
• SVENGALI PREDESTINATION: The magician predicts two selected cards.
• JACK TO THE FUTURE: Any card named by one spectator contains the name of any card selected by a second spectator.
• SVENVOODOO: A sort of "Any card at any number," but done twice.
• DEJA VOODOO 2.0: Any card named by the spectator is...

• Chica levita sobre tres pompas de jabón.
• Biografia: Sigfried & Roy.
• Cartas balanceadas.
• Curiosidades de catálogo: Monedas a pájaro.
• Limpiando naipes.
• Hermanos de sangre.
• Libros, videos y gente:
  • ... a pack of cards - Jack Merlin.
  • Further Education - John Archer.
• Origenes y anécdotas: Svengali deck.
• Palita del tren.

• ...
  • ... Bee
  • Spell It Yourself
  • Cannel's Spelling Bee
  • Howard's Simplex Speller
  • U Spell Your Card
  • The Spelling Bee Manuscript (Containing 9 Different Methods)
  • The Spelling Trick Effect
  • Seller's Speller Idea
  • An Easy Spelling Trick
  • Gwynne's Speller
  • Quadruple Speller
• Chapter Thirteen: Luring The Svengali Deck From Its Haunts
  • The Svengali Wonder
  • The Master Forcing Pack
  • Prediction Effect with a Svengali Force Deck
  • The Cards And Dice
  • Mindreading
  • Thought Transmission
  • The Prize Winner
  • The Mirage Principle
  • The Eye Popper
  • Mental Control
  • Say Stop
  • Mirage Cards
  • Mind Reading
  • The Mystery...

From the introduction:

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...

It's witty and it's full of wisdom. These are the ramblings of Mark Lewis on Internet forums. Irreverent and funny at times and full of deep thinking about magic and mentalism at other times.

Many incredible anecdotes of his varied life as a fortune teller, magician and hypnotist. In addition to this are techniques described on how to pitch svengali decks, how to do psychic readings, and most important of all how to do magic with showmanship and verve.

Included is a video clip of his legendary svengali deck routine which he has performed all over the world thousands of times plus tips...

The Thunderbolt Deck - Nelson's answer for what could be the perfect mechanical deck. As easy to use as a Svengali, but no funny riffles or tapping the ends of the deck. You can make one up yourself. (NE Cat. #31)

Spirit Rope Ties - Three effective rope ties to use for pseudo-mediumistic stunts or for a comedy effect where, no matter how securely a spectator tries to tie you, you are free almost instantly....