Big Book of Magic Tricks (Dover Magic Books)
Karl Fulves
Language: English
Pages: 208
ISBN: 0486282287
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
"The best book yet on easy-to-do magic." — Martin Gardner
Amaze friends, astonish your family, and fascinate any audience by infallibly dealing a royal flush, correctly predicting the outcome of the World Series, unmasking a psychic fraud, and performing a host of other dazzling deceptions. You can do it with the help of this book, one of the best guides to magic tricks that don't require long hours of practice or elaborate preparation.
You'll find invaluable techniques — clearly demonstrated with abundant illustrations — for accomplishing magical feats with cards, coins, rope, comedy magic, mental displays of dexterity and much more, as well as expert advice for practicing psychological misdirection and dramatic presentation. Although the tricks in this book require little in the way of props, sleight of hand or a high degree of skill, the effects they produce are astounding. Novices especially will find Big Book of Magic Tricks a wonderful introduction to the art of conjuring but the book is crammed with so much choice new information that even professional magicians can learn something.
"This book is quality — the tricks are effective, the methods ingenious, and the advice Fulves gives on presenting the tricks properly is excellent." — Robert Dike Blair
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Characteristic of the atmosphere that pervaded the colonies during the early years, but by the time of the American Revolution magicians were able to practice their calling in the New ~1 orld. The ranks of the great and near-great on both sides of the Atlantic swelled. The craftsmen who now domi nated the stage were Alexander Herrmann, Maskelyne, Kellar, Thurston, de Kolta, Ching Ling Foo, Valadon, Imro Fox, Carl Hertz, the incomparable Houdini, J. Warren Keane, Hardin, Devant, the Zanzigs,.
Associated with Masonic lodges, and though bitterly repudiated by British members of the fraternity, Cagliostro attracted thousands of eager followers. The meetings of the Egyptian Lodge presided over by Cagliostro were in reality seances in which standard magical effects were demonstrated under the guise of In THE MAGIC BOOK i) 8 spiritualism. In these meetings Cagliostro practiced crys tal gazing, and later, in a private laboratory in 1780, he demonstrated the transmutation of mercury to.
Astonishing feat to his audiences. One of his greatest tricks was "The Light and Heavy Chest." A small wooden chest was displayed as a cash box and placed in full view. A volunteer from the audi ence satisfied the spectators that the box could be lifted with the little finger. Houdin then made a series of hypnotic passes over the box, and the volunteer dis covered to his astonishment that he could not, try as he might, lift the box. At the snap of the fingers, the box would become light again.
And constant practice to be able to cut to any desired cards in the deck. But there are methods that achieve the desired end without skill or gimmicks, and some look very close to the real thing. One such variation is the following. It is in part based on ideas of Charles Jordan and Martin Gardner. It uses an ordinary deck, no special cards, and no sleight of hand. Even as a demonstration of Ace cutting, it is out of the ordinary because the spectator cuts to all four Aces! THE MAGIC BOOK 0.
Before Edison and was widely recognized on the European continent for his insight and creative abilities. He died in 1871, leaving behind a rich legacy for succeeding generations of magicians. The first third of the twentieth century in America saw the influx of immigrants and their gradual assimila· tion into the atmosphere and culture of the new land. World War I saw America emerge from an isolationist position to one of world involvement. It was a time of change, of enlarging perspectives,.