Willane's Wizardry
by Willane

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Excerpt from the preface:

This book contains endless entertainment for you and your friends, and represents part of my collection of "tricky stunts" which I have used for several years WITH GREAT SUCCESS - catches, puzzles, and tricks with which all magicians should be familiar. While many of them can be, and have been, performed on the stage, none requires any great amount of skill. For all that, each one should be tried over privately many times before you attempt to perform it to your friends. Neglect this necessary precaution and you will soon find how easy it is to produce a fiasco with even the simplest trick.

You must also remember that a trick, in itself, is simply the vehicle upon which your personality is carried. If you practise until the working of the trick is automatic your whole attention can be given to "presentation and timing." It is not what you do, but how you do it, that will establish your personality. Some of the effects described may seem so trivial that you may not think them worth while.

Preface
To Cut A Pencil In Two With A Pound Note
The Cracked Mirror
A Jagged Tear
Vanishing A Borrowed Coin
To Remove Your Thumb
An Impromptu Vanish
Amplifying Sound
Illusions Of Bending
How High Is A Top Hat?
The Looped Pencil
A Baffling Little Illusion
The Jumping Bands
To Place A Burning Cigarette On A Handkerchief Without Damage
To Raise The Dead
A Trick Question
To Tie A Knot In A Piece Of String Without Letting Go The Ends
A Psychic Trick
The Knot That Cannot Be Tied
Paper Magnetism
Instantaneous Extinguishing Of A Match
To Stop Your Pulse
Safety Pin And Handkerchief Illusion
Setting Light To A Lump Of Sugar
The Missing "Bob"
The Memory Feat
He May Omit 11s. 11d.
The Magnetic Match
Can You Catch It?
The Flying Match
The Extra Inch
An Inoffensive Practical Joke
Making A Person Lighter
Lighted Match In The Mouth "Stunt"
Paper Tearing
The Last Match
An Easy "Suggestion" Trick
The Talking Hand
Touched By The "Spooks"
A Card Trick Without Cards
Mind Control
The Penetrating Match
A Manipulative Puzzle
"Just Chance"
Biting And Cracking A Plate
To Pass One Tumbler Through Another
A Dinner Trick
The Magic Knot
A Trick For The Tea Table
An Instantaneous Knot
Removing A Thumb Nail
A Thorn In The Flesh
Any Day Called For
How To Work Out Key Numbers For Any Year In This Present Century, Excepting 1900.
The Chinese Compass
The Deaf Spot
To Bend A Cigarette Without Breaking Its Paper
A Trick Book
A Clever Paper Trick
Curious Figures
The Upside Down Note
Easy Money
Bad Manners But A Good Trick
Divining The Coin
The Bus Ticket And Walnut
The Sex Detector
A Coin Vanishes
Squizzle
They Can't Remember This
The Tidy Smoker
Napkin Folding Trick
An Addition Trick
How Large Is A Sixpence?
To Vanish A Cigarette
Plucking A Button From A Spectator's Coat
A Silly Trick
"Trente Et Un"
A Joke In The "Unpleasant" Category
To Rest Your Finger On The Glowing End Of A Cigarette
Forgetting One's Own Digits
The Mystifying Ropes
Dice Trick
Underneath The Armpits
A Balancing Feat
To Spin A Coin On An Inverted Tumbler
The Eyesight Test
Penetrating A Handkerchief With A Stick
Overfilled
Solution To "Squizzle"
Conclusion

1st edition 1947, 64 pages; PDF 68 pages.
word count: 19007 which is equivalent to 76 standard pages of text

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