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Nesting Boxes have a long
history in magic. These coffin shaped nesting boxes come
in three types - nesting Vampires, nesting Mummies, and
nesting Skeletons. Take your pick or make all of them.
The nests of coffin shaped boxes become magical when you
borrow a small object from someone (like a finger ring, a
coin, a dollar bill, etc.), make it disappear, and then
discover it inside the smallest coffin shaped box of the
nest. There are different routines for each of the three
types. Dollar Tree SOURCE. Easy to make; requires some sleight of hand
skills to perform.
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You will need more than
one Dollar Store item for this effect, and might have to
spend a bit more than a couple of bucks to make a deluxe
version. Beside using a mat, you can also have the
Wee-Gee Design on a plate. Instead of the usual Ouija
planchette, we'll be using a pendulum to talk to the
spirits in the old fashioned letter-by-letter way.
Various sources will be given in the e-Book. Requires a
bit of effort to make and some magic skills to perform.
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The box is made from 3
ring binder covers (you'll need 5 binders). The sides are
held together with duct tape or gaffers' tape, so the box
folds flat and opens up to make the production.
Production can be made from the top and bottom of the
box, as well as through the Jack O'Lantern eyes, nose and
mouth in all sides. The box Jim is holding in the photo
cost $10.00 plus tax for materials and took one afternoon
to construct in his outdoor backyard workshop.
SOURCE for Box Parts. Kitchen Workshop Construction -
no power tools needed. Easy to perform.
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"Copenetro" was
the name given to a Bob Kline USA pirated (1947) version
of a coin effect invented by British magician Jack Hughes
in 1937. It was a catchier name than the one given it by
Hughes ("Visible Coins in Glass") so that name
seems to have stuck. Our "poor man's" version
(not pirated) takes place in a Dollar Tree Cardboard Box
shaped like a haunted house, and the vanished four to six
coins (ordinary quarters) noisily appear one-by-one in an
empty sealed glass salt shaker (also a Dollar Tree
purchase) trapped inside the house. SOURCE for house box. SOURCE for shakers. Easy to make; requires sleight of
hand skills to perform.
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Creepy
Hands and Spiders
by Jim Gerrish
Skeleton Tong hands are
creepy enough. Add some creepy crawly spiders and give
everyone goosebumps. Now what can we do with these?
Renfield's Dream, for one. Remember him? He liked
catching tasty live insects and eating them in the
Dracula movies. A Chinese Stick effect also comes to
mind.
SOURCE for skeleton tongs. SOURCE for spiders. Easy to make; requires practice
skills to perform.
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This is a smaller version
of my Floating Beachballs, from The Wizards' Journal #29, which can be
rigged as a Halloween porch illusion, or for use in a
more close-up and intimate setting. These four inch
diameter balls from Dollar Tree light up brightly, and I
have recently solved the problem of battery replacements.
Dollar Tree SOURCE. Easy to make; requires some magic skills to
perform.
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The Chatty Rat
"comes to life" and answers questions, carries
on a rat chat, sings rat songs, and leaves behind some
rat droppings when the act is over. Versions for
ventriloquists and for non-ventriloquists are included.
Other chatty skeletons are also available. Dollar Tree SOURCE. Easy to make; easy to operate.
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Four separate styrofoam
Grave Stones (or make them yourself from cardboard or
foam board) are shown on all sides, then formed into a
mausoleum from which you bring forth creepy spiders,
lighted Halloween lanterns, skulls, bones, and assorted
graveyard stuff. Dollar Tree SOURCE.
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Since 1854, most versions
of the Monte have been played with only three
cards. Spider Monte is played with seven cards,
six of them all alike and the seventh card different. But
the e-Book also shows how to perform a variety of other
card tricks that you can put together using regular size
and jumbo cards from Dollar Tree, plus other stuff to
make the cards do what you tell them to do. Includes
templates that you can mount on top of the cards if you
want to play and win the game Spider Monte, a
favorite of grave diggers everywhere. SOURCE.
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Whomsoever weareth this
Golden Masque shall have the gift of Prophecy. Who
weareth the Arm Plates of Destiny shall knoweth Good and
Evil. That includes spectators from the audience who are
invited to try them on, Predict the Future, and sort out
the Good from the Evil. SOURCE. The Dollar Tree material is child sized, but I
predict that you can get similar things from Party Supply
sources that fit adults.
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