WJ30-01
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Effect: A locked box containing a
prediction, tied up with ribbons and given someone to
guard long before the show begins, is brought to the
stage along with the key that opens the box, which has
been left with someone else to guard until this moment. A
spectator is chosen to write down some headlines that
spectators with electronic phones look up and call out at
random. A spectator is chosen to open the box, remove the
prediction and read it aloud to the audience. The
ready-made Predictable Box costs $15 from
Amazon, plus a little work and fixin' up. An optional
whiteboard (or paper pad) is used to collect the events.
The Predictable Box can be used for any type of
prediction that can be written down on paper.
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WJ30-02
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King of Night Clubs, that is. This
e-Book contains jumbo card material from my old nightclub
act, and some of it is for adults only, so be forewarned.
The cards can be made from existing jumbo cards, or you
can print up special cards using the templates provided.
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WJ30-03
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In Their Hands C&R
Rope
by Robert Harbin, but revisited and brought up-to-date by
Jim Gerrish
Effect: With clean hands (totally empty)
you toss out a length of rope into the audience. Harbin
used a full hank of rope, but any length will do. Ask the
one who caught the rope to bring it back to the stage
after checking it over, and ask him to bring a friend.
The two helpers stretch out the rope between them as you
stand behind the middle of the rope. You gather up the
center of the rope, pulling it through your left hand to
form a loop. You then have a rehearsal of how they are to
pull the rope from your hands at the end.
Now you bring out a pair of scissors and
hand them to a third helper. Once again you grab the
center of the rope and pull it into a loop above your
left fist. You ask the third helper to cut the rope in
the center and step back so the audience can see a
miracle. You have your original two helpers pull as hard
as they can and the rope is suddenly fully restored and
you stand there with empty hands raised in the
"applause cue". You can give them the rope to
think about how it was done as you collect the scissors
and leave them in awe of your magic powers.
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WJ30-04
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Threesies
by Wiz Kid Qua-Fiki
Effect: At first glance this is the
Abbott's Canary Cats trick, inventor unknown, usually
performed with five cards ( 4 cats and a canary). But
that trick is a variation of the venerable Four Card
Monte (also with an unknown inventor) and our Threesies
version, performed with (obviously) three cards, is the
invention of Wiz Kid Qua-Fiki. Each card can be shown on
both sides, front and back. The canary vanishes from your
hands and ends up in the spectator's hands. Once we got
started on the Threesie's principle, we applied it to
four completely different cards and also present you with
Qua-Fiki's newest "in their hands" Three Little
Pigs.
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WJ30-05
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A variation on Canadian magician Bill
Paul's 1953 "Fraidy Cat Rabbit" that you can
make yourself on photo matte card stock using your
computer printer and some real life cutting and pasting.
Our Halloween Themed Ghost can easily be changed to any
theme or character you want to use, for any season or
occasion.
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WJ30-06
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I have always liked storytelling magic,
because to me, stories ARE magic and the storyteller is a
magician who can bring thoughts and images to life inside
the listener. Like many who grew up hearing the Night
Before Christmas told every year since early childhood, I
have memorized the poem and I wanted a magical way to
tell it WITH my audiences, allowing them to participate
as much as their own memories permitted. Instead of
making the poem appear in a book, I make only the 1902
W.W. Denslow illustrations magically appear on giant
blank cards, as together we all say the words of the poem
aloud. This is a quiet performance - not for those who
like screaming - and it draws in the parents along with
the children as they wait for each picture to appear.
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WJ30-07
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Four quick and easy card tricks
performed with jumbo or Super Jumbo cards. You make them
yourself from an inexpensive pack of jumbo or super jumbo
cards (sources given). I always like to grab a music
stand from the orchestra and use it both as a table and a
stand to display the cards, but suit yourself. Four
different effects are given - short enough not to annoy
the other performers you are about to announce, but long
enough to allow them to get ready. Each effect has built
in "applause cues". Best of all, they don't
HAVE to be used as MC tricks, but each is strong enough
to insert into your show, or reserve as an emergency
effect if you need to replace a broken trick or expand
your act by a few minutes. Includes Jolly Joker
Spelling Trick, Cutting the Cards, Match
me If You Can, and The World Famous Four Queen
Trick.
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WJ30-08
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Back from Oblivion, four tricks from our
past history that didn't make the cut of time as ordinary
magic tricks, get new life breathed into them with the
addition of Hypnosis. Is it REAL or is it NOT REAL? Who
cares? It SEEMS real and a little scary! Are those
circles really moving?
Includes Hypno-Conflictus - based on Conflictus,
a trick last seen in the 1970's - creator unknown.
Hypno- Blanko - based on U.F. Grant's Jumbo
Blanko with a lot more Blankos.
Hypno-Spin - Based on Dr. Dailey's Last
Trick with some cards that look like they are
spinning out of control. Are those circles really moving?
and Hypno-Hallucination, based on Eddie Clever's
1934 Hallucination trick from Jinx #1, but made
for Jumbo Cards.
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WJ30-09
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The magician, who pretends to be afraid
of clowns, calls up four or five helpers from the
audience to help him perform a trick with "invisible
handkerchiefs." The helpers make their invisible
handkerchiefs visible, and each one is a different color.
For a finale, all the handkerchiefs merge together into a
picture of a clown, but by then, with the children's
help, the performer has gotten over his
"phobia" of clowns and turns into a clown
himself, with the aid of a big red clown nose. A great
way to deal with children who actually have a fear of
clowns by allowing them to help you not be
afraid. This makes a great companion trick to Clown
Clones.
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WJ30-10
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Children of all ages know and enjoy the
story of Chicken Little with it cast of characters with
the funny rhyming names, Henny Penny, Ducky Wuckie,
Goosey Lucy, and so on. It's a story for modern times as
well, equating the "sky is falling" with
"global warming" and running around in a panic
before all the facts are known. This e-Book gives you
many ways to tell the story- with picture cards, with a
shadow-puppet show, with a Punch and Judy type hand
puppet show, and with an audience dress-up participation
skit.
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