WJ40-01
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FATE
by Jim Gerrish
Effect: A
deck of blue backed cards is shuffled by a spectator and
returned to the card box. From another box of red backed
cards, also shuffled by a spectator, the magician selects
a card without seeing its face… trusting only in
Fate to make his selection. The Fate selection is left on
the table face-down. The rest of the cards are scattered
around it, face-up to show that any one of them could
have been chosen, but Fate determined that particular
face-down card should be the one and only card for this
moment of time. As yet, no one knows what card it is,
neither the magician, who can be blindfolded, nor the
audience.
From the original blue backed shuffled
deck, the spectator removes the cards and will also use
Fate to select one card. The cards are held face down and
one by one are turned face up in a pile on the table. The
magician notes that the cards were well shuffled as the
faces are shown, and tells the spectator that when he
feels the moment is right, he is to stop dealing the
cards face up. The spectator then takes the NEXT
face-down card without looking at it and places it
face-down on the table. By FATE (or is it magic?) the two
chosen cards match. Any two decks can be used, even
borrowed decks. You can also perform this with Tarot or
Oracle cards for a more mysterious interpretation of
FATE.
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WJ40-02
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Effect: From
a pack of Circus Cards, you remove nine of them and as
you position the cards in a 3 x 3 matrix you explain that
you will be playing a circus game with someone from the
audience.
The selected game player is asked to place a marker on
any of the nine cards to begin the game. You explain that
he or she will not be playing against you, but
against a famous magician of long ago who left you a book
of directions, which you now bring out and show the
audience.
Your job now is to help the player follow the directions
written in the book so that the famous magician, the
Great Hambini, who lived in the 1800’s, can have
some fun playing his old circus game once again from
beyond the grave. It really seems as if the spirit of
Hambini can see what is happening, because his book
comments on what is taking place at each stage of the
game right up until the end when the last card is shown
to be... a surprise that the whole audience will long
remember.
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WJ40-03
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Effect: “Did you lose your ID wallet?”
the magician asks a complete stranger. The stranger
denies it. The magician opens the wallet and looks at the
stranger. “Are you sure? It has your initials in it,
I think. What’s the first letter of your first name?
How about the first letter of your last name?”
If I were the stranger, I would have
said "J" and "G" as the answers to
his questions. Then the magician would show me that
inside the wallet were two cards side by side, one with a
"J" and one with a "G". The cards are
Alphabet cards like children use to learn their letters.
Eventually my entire name gets spelled out, "Jim
Gerrish", from someone I just met with a mysterious
wallet in which kiddie Alphabet cards appear one after
another.
Then I learn that the wallet also has a
note inside: “Property of Baby Bobby, Child Magician
Extraordinaire who died at the age of six in 1924. If
found, please return to the nearest magician to deliver
to The Secret Magic Museum in East Orange, NJ.” So I
have to give back the wallet to the magician. But the
alphabet cards have all mysteriously disappeared, leaving
only a gift token that reads, “Thanks to Jim Gerrish
for Finding and Returning my Magic Wallet… Baby
Bobby.” Another dead magician playing tricks on me!
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WJ40-04
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Most Torn
and Restored Card Effects are for use with regular size
cards, but I like to perform from platform or stage with
jumbo cards, from 3" x 5" to at least 5" x
7". This Torn and Restored Card is just for that
situation.
Spectators
remove the cards from a jumbo box of cards, and shuffle
the cards, then choose one card and vote on which one it
should be. Once they have the card chosen, you show them
how to fold it in fourths, and then sign their name(s) on
the front of the card, as well as at least one name
signed on the back edge of the card.
That's
when you take over, tearing the jumbo card into four
separate pieces and then just as quickly restoring the
four separate pieces back to one intact card, still
signed and ready to be given away as a souvenir.
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WJ40-05
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One
Effect: A deck of
cards is shuffled thoroughly and spread out. Before any
card is freely chosen, the mentalist points to an airmail
(with window) envelope sealed inside another large window
manila envelope that can be on display anywhere in the
room. Now a spectator draws out any freely chosen card
from the card spread and turns it over. Let’s say it
is the three of clubs. The large window envelope is
unsealed and opened. The inner window envelope is removed
and handed to the spectator to open. It contains one card
only… you guessed it …the three of clubs!
The same
set of window envelopes can be used to predict ESP cards,
Tarot Cards, words chosen at random, numbers chosen at
random, drawings chosen at random, colors of the rainbow,
world currencies, library books, works of art, postcards
from everywhere, places on a globe, and so on. Every time
you perform this, the result is always different because
the items are truly chosen at random. The envelope is in
plain sight throughout, and both envelopes have windows
through which you can see the contents. The spectator
always does the final reveal by opening the airmail
window envelope and removing the ONE prediction it
contains. Perfect for a "Confabulation" of
predictions.
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WJ40-06
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Your
business card is one of the most important advertising
tools you have as a magician and entertainer. A plain
business card with just your contact information is
likely to end up in the trash unless you make it an
important novelty that the owner can talk about and show
to others. This e-Book shows you special magic designs
and ways to perform them close-up and personal that will
give your customers something to remember, and hopefully
keep and talk about with their friends.
Tricks
include variations and follow-ups for Clare Cummings and
Bob Ellis' 1944 Out to Lunch, Ed Mellon's 1957 Synomental,
Brother John Hamman's 1958 Hamman Count, Peter
Kane's 1962 Wild Card, Jim Temple's 1968 Color
Monte, Al Cohen's 1972 Dots Impossible, and
more...
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WJ40-07
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CatNip
by Jim Gerrish
A mechanical kitten named CatNip performs magic with cat and
kitten themes. CatNip knows all and tells nothing, but
watch the kitten's tail for a real tale of what's
happening and what's not. The Cat in the Hat makes an
appearance with 4 Things in attendance. Like the Cheshire
cat, CatNip disappears and takes its smile along. CatNip
reappears when good and ready and not before.
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WJ40-08
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Packs small in a box for transportation,
but packs a wallop from the time it begins to inflate
until suddenly the magician appears inside and steps out
to perform his show... on a stage or in a living room
(10' tall or higher). Use for an Appearance Illusion/
Transformation Illusion/ Disappearance Illusion/
Production Illusion. Then there are the photo
opportunities before the magician disappears, and the
arch begins to deflate. There are many other styles
available for Halloween and different holidays.
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WJ40-09
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Originally published in 1971 in the
Oracle Quarterly, this is Jim's original envelope switch.
Example of what can be done: A spectator is given an
envelope containing a Jumbo Joker (5"x7"). He
removes the Joker, looks it over, puts it back in the
envelope and seals it. Now the spectator chooses a card
from a regular pack of cards. Let's say it is the Nine of
Hearts. The spectator opens up the large envelope and
dumps out the jumbo card. The Joker has changed into the
Nine of Hearts. The envelope is then ripped open and
ripped up to prove that's all there is to it. And that's
just one of the routines possible with this special
envelope. Do-It-Yourself instructions for making the
envelope in any size, shape or color.
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WJ40-10
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In 1939, U.F. Grant released his
“Slow Motion Bill Switch” in which a one dollar
bill changes places with a five dollar bill in the hands
of a spectator. The currency of 1939 has transformed over
the years so that this trick needed some updates. You'll
find them here. You can perform with singles to fives,
fives to tens, tens to twenties and larger if you're rich
enough to handle it. But there's more than that. You and
a spectator can both read the serial number of a bill
neither of you has seen in a trick I call "Serial
Killer." And you can transform dollar bills into
metal quarters or half dollars for a "Morgan
Matrix" routine... and more.
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