WJ42-01
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Start with a small goldfish bowl filled
with clear water, a large drinking glass, a blue paper
cylinder, a turkey baster and a silk with a goldfish
design. Remove a paper lunch bag from your pocket and
open it. Show it empty. Now the magic begins. The glass
will be filled with water using the turkey baster, it
will then disappear, taking the water with it and leaving
only the empty blue paper cylinder. In the process, the
image of the goldfish will vanish from the silk
handkerchief, leaving only a blank space to show where it
was. Next, you allow a spectator to reach into the paper
bag and remove the glass filled with water, now with a
live goldfish swimming in it which can be poured into the
goldfish bowl possibly to be given to the spectator to
take home.
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WJ42-02
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Many magicians are also balloon
twisters. However, it surprised me recently to learn that
there are some balloon twisters who are NOT magicians.
Some of those twisters may know a few card tricks, but
they don’t know how to do MAGIC with their BALLOONS.
This e-Book is dedicated to both – magicians who
want to learn some MAGIC they can perform WITH their
balloons, and balloon twisters who can ADD MAGIC to their
balloon twisting performances, becoming MAGICIANS in the
process. Includes: Cut and Restored Blown Balloon, Color
Changing Balloons, Multiplying Small Balloon Animals,
Puppetry with Balloons, Balloon Through Body, Pushing a
Small Balloon Animal INSIDE a Large Round Balloon... and
many more.
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WJ42-03
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The French "Le Mouchoir du
Diable" or "Devil's Hank" dates from about
1876, and is in every magic store on the planet,
unchanged since then.
In 2006, Professor Spellbinder released
the secret of his “Angel’s Hank” for
vanishing a ring to use with his “Ring to Nest of
Boxes” trick as found in The Wizards’ Journal #11-07.
He also used a variation of his “Angel’s
Hank” when publishing his “Pink Panther
Mystery” for the same Wizards’ Journal #11-04.
The following year (2007) I came up with yet another
variation, a sort of cross between the Devil's and
Angel's Hanks, that I called the Imp Hank. I don't know
where the idea came from, but here it is described in
print for the first time. Just the Thing to Vanish a
Ring!
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WJ42-04
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This is based on U.F. Grant's
"Telediction" as published in 1970. I
originally made variations for using it as a mental
effect for kid shows, and then I made Grant's idea even
more impossible by having 48 designs from which six are
randomly chosen. But before that happens a prediction is
written on a note pad which is then folded and locked
inside a toy bank and given to a child to guard. Another
child shuffles the 48 Toy Cards and randomly chooses any
6 cards, which are strapped to a display board as
pictured. Someone else removes any one of the 6 choices.
Let's say the Basketball is chosen. The bank is opened up
by the child guarding it and he removes the prediction
which reads: Basketball! Even kids are impressed with
this one! Other variations are included to perform with
playing cards, zoo animals, sports teams, etc. You are
not limited to 6 choices out of 48.
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WJ42-05
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Effect: The
Escape Artist and a person from the audience are chained
up using combination locks chosen at random by another
member of the audience. He escapes easily, but to free
his "victim", 4 random numbers are chosen by 4
members of the audience and called out so everyone can
add them up to reach a total. Yet another audience member
uses the total arrived at to open her combination lock.
If performed by an escape artist, he or
she has nothing to do but organize everything and let the
audience participate in letting his innocent
"victim" escape. If performed by a mentalist,
it is an example of his or her ability to mentally
control random acts and events to free the
“prisoner”. (Reviewed by Cliff Gerstman in the May 2020
Chainletter!)
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WJ42-06
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Bizarre Magic for those who like a
Touch of Spooky.
A spectator, playing the part of the
Grim Reaper, chooses which royal playing card will be
next to pass away but tells no one. He writes it down for
the “Book of Life and Death” then gives the
folded paper on which he wrote the name of the chosen
card to one of his friends to hold, not to the magician.
No one sees it until the “Moment of Truth.” The
chosen card just vanishes from the pack. Moments later,
it is found rising up from the magician's pocket on its
way to paradise.
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WJ42-07
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An envelope marked only with a large
question mark has been hanging in plain sight. Now the
mentalist takes it down and hands it to a spectator. From
several sheets of newspaper or advertisements, the
spectator draws out one sheet and hands it to the
mentalist. The newspaper is folded and torn, until the
performer is holding and shuffling 16 pieces torn from
the newspaper that the spectator chose. The spectator
chooses a number from 1 to 16. The mentalist counts to
the number selected, handing that piece to the spectator
and tossing the rest of the papers away. The spectator is
asked to read the information on the newspaper and say
out loud anything that stands out. Afterwards, the
mentalist has the spectator open the big envelope, remove
the prediction, and show everyone what is written on the
paper inside. Contrary to what
one would intuitively expect, it matches the
information from the newspaper exactly.
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WJ42-08
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Based on the old Indian Mango Trick of
ages past, I pass out a dry brown bulb and request the
audience to imagine the flower that might grow from it if
we had enough time to wait. But I know a magic way to
speed up time. I cover the brown bulb with a simple
ungimmicked handkerchief, and reveal that the bulb has
turned green. Cover and uncover and it has sprouted some
leaves. Another cover/uncover and a stem appears with the
hint of growth on the top. The final cover/uncover
reveals the small tulip you see pictured in my hand. You
can end it there, or if you have the resources, give the
artificial tulip to someone in the audience to take home
as a souvenir. The real magicians among us will turn it
into a live tulip to be given away.
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WJ42-09
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The Budgerigar, also known as a common
pet parakeet, is easy to train as a magic partner and
while not as showy as doves or bigger birds, nevertheless
grabs audience attention from the moment it first appears
until it magically disappears. This e-Book shows many
ways to use your pet in a magic show that can be fun for
both of you. While I don't recommend that you go out and
buy one and use him for magic the next day without a long
period of training for both of you, if you already live
with one and appreciate it like a pet or a friend, you
might want to try some of these effects to see if your
little buddy is willing and able to perform for a group
of kids or adults in a magic show setting.
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WJ42-10
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Since this is likely to be my last post
on The Magic Nook, I decided to finish up with my version
of Del Ray's 1950 Mechanical Mouse that cost hundreds of
dollars back then, but which can be made for about $10
today.
Just to show you what else can be done
with the idea, I'll demonstrate by handing out wooden
parts for a spectator to construct a little wooden car
and “endow it with life” by using the spirit
world to make the wooden car move around the table like
Del Ray’s mouse, find chosen cards like a
self-motivated Koornwinder's Car and more. Using the same
"modus operandi" you'll find instructions to
make a Spirit Bell, a Spinning Flashlight, a Moving
Voodoo Doll, and a Toppling Desk Frame. Those projects
will probably inspire you to come up with more uses for
your Mouse Power.
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