Mysterio's Encyclopedia of Magic and Conjuring

Introduction CHAPTER I BODY MAGIC PROPLESS WONDERS Boy, Are My Arms Tired! Finger Finder Lengthened Limb Four out of Five D.O.S. (Dead on Stage) Slight Adjustment Triple-Jointed Modern-Day Georgia Magnet Stay Put! Floating Finger Stuck like Glue Skewed Sense of Touch Perceptive Pulsation Rooted Make like a Tree Stiff as a Board Impromptu Levitation CHAPTER II CARD MAGIC PASTEBOARD PRESTIDIGITATION SELF-WORKING CARD TRICKS Odd Man Out Further than That Double Reverse Four Bullets the Hard Way Simplicity Four-Ace Trick Miraskill CARD SLEIGHTS AND THEIR USES Controlling a Card — The Double Undercut — The Hindu Shuffle Control — Jog Shuffle Control — Overhand Shuffle Control — The Flexible Switchout Forcing a Card — Cross Cut Force — Pseudo-Hindu Shuffle Force — Riffle Force — Slip Force Palming a Card — Palming Pointers — Basic Top Palm — Classic Top Palm The Double Lift — Basic Double Lift — Double Turnover Quick Double Trick SHORTCUTS: GIMMICKS, GAFFS, AND SUBTLETIES — The Key Card The Next Card I Turn Over Do As I Do The Short Card — Basic Short Card — Corner Short — Vernon’s Short Card Eye-Spy Short Location The Missing Card Crimps — Basic Crimp — Ridged Card Crimp — Crimp As Locator Cutting to the Queens Specially Printed Cards Hands-off Transposition Double Backer Behind the Back SKILLED CARD TRICKS The Triple-Speller Deuce Sandwich Follow Your Card Trick of the Year Business Card Prophecy Twin Souls Name and Number REPUTATION MAKERS Al Baker’s Deck That Cuts Itself (The Haunted Deck) The Rising Cards Card in the Orange Out of This World Finding Everyone’s Card CHAPTER III CLOSE-UP MAGIC SMALL MIRACLES Acrobatic Rubber Band Tabletop Uri Geller Magnetic Fingertips Postage Prediction Pseudo Sword Swallowing Paper and Silver (Including the Paddle Move) Mr. Freeze Hanging in the Balance Floated Loan Bottoms Up Crazy Man’s Handcuffs Vanishing Thimble Comeback Key Finger, Finger Two in the Hand, One in the Pocket Sugar Trick Matches Fly via Gravity Twist and Change Saltshaker through the Table Dual Control — Magnetized Cards — Clinging Pencil — The Drawer That Won’t Close — Other Objects Under Your Spell — Secret Palming — Dual Possibilities CHAPTER IV CUPS AND BALLS THE OLDEST DECEPTION PROPERTIES BASIC SLEIGHTS — Finger Palm — Simple False Transfer — Roll-Down Vanish — Basic Load #1 — Basic Load #2 — Tip-Over Load — Steal — The Inertia Move — The Scoop Move The Basic Routine BUSINESS ESSENTIALS — Screwing a Cup Together — Wand Through Cup — Cup Through Cup — Patter and Misdirection Impromptu Cups and Balls Routine — Phase One—Gone and Back Again — Phase Two—Invisible Flight — Phase Three—All Together Now — Phase Four—The Final Load Surprise TWO BUILDING BLOCKS — Cups Runneth Over — Stacked Appearance CHAPTER V MONEY MAGIC CONJURING WITH CURRENCY COIN SLEIGHTS: PALMING, SWITCHING, AND VANISHING — The Classic Palm — Finger Palm — Thumb Palm — Purse Palm — Downs Palm — The Bobo Switch — Coin Vanishes Fake Put Lapped The French Drop Retention of Vision Vanish Pinch Vanish Foiled Vanish First the Pencil, then the Coin Borrowed, then Gone MORE COIN SLEIGHTS: PRODUCTIONS — From Finger Palm — From Downs Palm — Keeping Up The Charade — Further Still—The Shuttle Pass Cut in Half (The Coin Fold) The Four Coin Roll-Down The Five Coin Pirouette—A Challenge The Coin Roll Ballpoint Magic Wand The Porous Paw Through a Ring Silver Extraction Silver from Paper The Sympathetic Coins Coin in the Ball of Wool The Miser’s Dream Slow-Motion Bill Transposition Rip-It Roll-Over Cutting Money CHAPTER VI ROPE MAGIC CONJURING WITH CORDAGE MAGICIAN’S ROPE — Coring a Rope — The Ends Cut and Restored Rope Scissorcut Three There, Three Gone Release the Ring Miller’s Miracle Move Tight-Rope Walking in Miniature Stiff Rope Chefalo’s Vanishing Knot Rope through Neck Linked Sefalaljia Genuine Dissolving Knot No Escape (Vest Turning) Pop off Knot Professor’s Nightmare Clifton’s Ring Move The Hunter Knot Stretching a Rope Impossible Knot Kellar’s Rope Tie CHAPTER VII MAGIC OF THE MIND MENTAL MARVELS Gray Elephants in Denmark Mass Mathematical Mentalism Technicolor Divination Over and Over and Over Handled Devilish Date Determinations Sixteen Dates Like a Sore Thumb International Taste Buds Under the Influence Three Direct Hits The Center Tear Ashes on the Arm Instant Magic Square Color Coded via Kicks One Word in a Million Cellular Psychic Headline Sensation CHAPTER VIII PARLOR MAGIC CONJURING ON STAGE Sleeved Magic Pitcher Square Circle Table Lifting Torn and Restored Newspaper Strip Mirage in Your Pocket Egg in Newspaper Hydrostatic Miracle Rabbit Required Change Bag Mental Celebrity Photography Vanishing Wand Vanishing Bowl of Water CHAPTER IX HANDKERCHIEF MAGIC SILKEN SORCERY The Dissolving Knot Plucked Off Without Letting Go Haunted Knot Producing a Handkerchief—Method 1 Producing a Handkerchief—Method 2 Handkerchief through the Arm Soft Glass deKolta’s Vanishing Handkerchief Handkerchief to Golf Ball Escape! The Go-Go Vanisher Silken Lunch Kling Klang The Invisible Hen Flash Color-Changing Silk Three Hands-off Knots Cut and Restored Silk Cords of Phantasia Pull-apart Silks Self-unknotting Hankie Twentieth-Century Silks Shower of Sweets CHAPTER X ILLUSIONS STAGE-FILLING CONJURING Production Panels Broom Illusion Daring Production Silken Switch Sack Escape The Tip-over Box Double Box Illusion The Exchange Illusion Substitution Trunk Illusion Arabian Tent Illusion Stupendous Suspension Afterword Secrets Are Only the Beginning Other Resources Acknowledgments