Duplicitests
Of all the versions I have mentioned thus far, the most sophisticated was, not surprisingly, that of Peter Warlock, In Warlock's routine a prediction had been made on a slate and his force procedure involved loading not one but two banks of duplicate pieces. Of these two hanks, one set of pieces had printing on both sides the other set had printing only on one side, the other side being white space from a display ad or an unrecognizable section of photograph. The spectator freely or so she...
Crossreference Cuf
Thpinage see Unknown Power page 28 and Gcmimght page 515 Doublet see No No. page 454 and Dinitial page 751 Spyhole see Spywaue page 694 Selectrick see Bellsamo page 571 It isNT My purpose here to give you an encyclopedia of methods for doing the book test. For one thing, that's already been done in C.L, Boarde's Mainly Mental Vol. Two. For another a large number of the available methods and there are many for the book test are to my mind worthless. It seems to me that many such tests involve...
Credits Txp
The eleven-card count sometimes known as the European 10 11 force is the invention of Corvello,lfl Dai Vernon used the red-card angle in his Mental Die11, and there have been a number of items in print using if, including my Longwave page 649 I suspect they may all stern from the two X-marked cards that are among the 'outs' in Ralph Hull's Name O' Card routine12. Corvette's Force seems first to have been described in English in The Blonker Cards Of Ken Brooke, a marketed kern. Marketed by Tom...
Credits Qgy
As noted, the Curry routine was the direct inspiration for Decidual all have done is to add the stack which allows for the specific prediction. For Curry's excellent handling touches see his Paul Curry presents. The eleven-card count also known as the European 10 11 force is the invention of Corvello,ll Mention should also be made of Karl Fulves, who in his Even Money Proposition published in Pallbearers Review developed the general procedure or having cards chosen from dealt pairs. The...
Procedure No 2
Here the deck has a cyclic arrangement, i.e., C-N-W-LrO-C-N-W-L-O-C-N-W-L-O,,, etc, with the cards so arranged you do continuous straddle faros, stopping only when die spectator tells you to at which point you hand her the deck and tell her to give it a complete cut and deal out the next five cards for herself. No matter how many straddle faros have been executed, this procedure will restil t i n the spectator ge Lti rig, as before, a complete set of five different letters. Also as before, she...
Crossreference
Box Office see Handbook page 496 Burning Questions see Deciuision page 732 Unknown Power see Tapinagc page 297 and Gemimghl page. 515 Synchroincidence see Synchrowave page 691 Framedown sec On 'Hie Color-Counting Frame page 435 The Psychic Coercion Of'Phe Interrupted Schoolboy see Elementeerie page 251 THIS SECTION CONCERNS Itself with a classic routine of mentalism the three-phase prediction. We'll discuss close-up arid plaUbrrn routines as well as new approaches in methodology and...
Credits Qvv
The basic idea and the genesis of the deck switch come from Robert Parrish's synchronism in the Parrish and Weigle book Do That Again13. A similar cHFect, Contrasting Prediction by Phil Goldstein, may be found in Goldstein's bookNOTTONS11. In both these effects you chose one of the cards in Parrish's version the face-up card, in Goldstein's the face-down card and in neither could the deck be freely shuffled to show the backs and establish that it was what it appeared to be. Synchruincidence is...
Info Ujy
3. The pi ces are now rotated ninety degrees counterclockwise, so that the center section is to the left and at the rear of the packet of pieces. As the right hand comes over to make the second tear, the front piece is moved to the right concealed by the right fingers' and the rear piece is torn in half again and the pieces are carried away by the right hand. 4. The position now is that the center section alone remains in the left hand, It rests against the pad of the second fi nger and is...
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and on the other it has two rows of ESP symbols, thus You ask the spectator to think of a four-digit number all digits different , and then to name any one of her chosen digits. She does so and, using her number, you count to one of the ESP symbols which, for example, proves to be a star. You tell her to write down the remaining three digits to reverse their order to make a new number and to subtract the smaller number from the larger to reverse the digits again and add them to the number just...
Addendum
Not long after I wrote the above afterword, I learned from Max Maven of Fogel's deiith. There are many people in the mystery held more qualified than myself tap eulogize Fogel, and to memorialize die charm and talent of diis great showman. Instead, let me ted you a stoiy that illustrates his abilities and also illustrates some of the points 1 have tried to bring out in the preceding pages. Several years ago I took a friend, the well-known fantasy novelist Kathernv Kurtz, to see the performance...
ON THE COLORCOUNTING FRfiME
The color-counting frame is the forcing device, variously credited to Stanley Collins and Ernest Noakes, in which you have a four-by-four-square chart. A force color is in Squares 1, 6, 8 and 14 left to right, top to bottom . Any number from one to sixteen can be called out and, depending on which edge of the chart is up, you can reach one of the four force squares. The problem with this device is that the force information has to appear four times. Solutions to this have involved words which...
Blindfolds
In this subsection we will consider only the fake blindfold, since there is r. thing tobe gainedby the use ofa genuineblindfold. Also, we will not cover specific methodology, since it is thoroughly discussed in Will Dexter's Sealed viiion and in Step Five Blindfolds of Tony Corinda's Thirteen Steps To Mzntalism. Here we are only concerned with presentational aspects. In psychometry there is one great advantage to the use of a blindfold it allows you to study the objcct and its owner quite...
Method Gfr
The deck consists of rough-and-smooth pairs the pairs are much like those in an Ultra-Mental Deck i.e., the two values total fourteen and Hearts are paired with Diamonds, Clubs with Spades. Unlike the UM Deck, however, both cards of the pair face the same way. On the back of the lower card of the pair and the face of the upper, the imprint of a pair of lips is made with red stamp-pad ink novelty rubber stamps bearing a lip-print maybe used to do this. In addition, the deck is marked on the...
Method Jrr
As with the previous method, you're going to have to try this before you '11 believe it works,,. what happens is actually qu itc si triple you really do drop the envelope into the firebowl and it really is burned. But the question card isn't, lb put it bluntly, what you have done is to fireproof the card so it won't burn. There are various methods of doing this You can get a commercial spray preparation if you have trouble locating such a product your local fire department should be able Lo...
Method Hes
This is simply a marrying of two classic principles, the one-behind procedure and die raugh-and-smooth preparation of cards. All the cards used have the same back design and color the Hain.es Fox Lake are the most readily obtainable with the required variation of faces. Each packet of five cards is actually made up of five pairs of cards the five ESP cards have their backs roughed and paired to each of these is a card duplicating one of the playing cards of Packet Three. In the same way, Packet...
BOOKfi
There are those mentalists who hold the view which 1 do not share that cards arc out of place in a mentalistic presentation. For them, let's provide an adaptation of the handling above, applied to a Cerberic book-test sequence. Tb do this we will c mploy a book that has been rather heavily galled but this should not cause any concern to die astute performer, who will realize that all of this is part of the secondary procedure i.e., since presumably the prediction has already been made when the...
Method
For this you will need a small ornate chest or jewel box having a tray which litis out this tray should be roomy enough for several amulets and can be of the kind separated into compartments. The only other requirement is that the floor of the tray be as thin as possible and not made of metal. The amulets can be made in a number of ways the easiest, perhaps, is to shape them out of plastic wood. They should be distincdy different in appearance an occult sourcebook can be helpful here and of...
Ch Romantic
This is lor private readings done with a magickal slant You hand the sitter a book or chart of talismans. There ire thirty or so, and beneath each of them is a line of calligraphic script indicating what problems and questions they assist in solving. The talismans are drawn in several colors. Handing the spectator five pens of different colors and a slip of parchment, you instruct him to copy exactly the talisman relevant to his problem only if the talisman is made by the person involved will...
Crossreference Mur
The area of mental ism which has come to be known as 'bizarre magick' has an interesting history. It could be said to have begun with the publication of Arthur Monroe's Voodoo effect in an early number of The Jinx1, but it is also possible to argue diat it began with the demonstrations of David Abbott in his 'mystery house', so well described in his two books Behind The Scenes With The Mediums and Davtd p. Abbott's Book Of Mysteries, The difference, I think, lies in intent Abbott was presenting...
Keystome
You have a large grimoirc or book of spells leather-bound and fitted with a hasp in which a padlock is secured. A protective spell keeps others from opening the book, you say, and proceed to prove it, by doing eiLher Kcy-R-Rcct, Keys Of Judah, or any of the other versions of the Keys And Locicroutine best known by the Earl Der Biggers title Annemann applied to this effect Stfucn Keys To Baldpate. if you use the Key-R-Rect effect, I suggest you give the lock a dark copper finish there are...
The Double Routine
This is, in fact, a series of routines, all based on the same general handling. For the most part they use one of two hidden gimmicks a pocket billet index or a pocket-writer. 1 am not going to describe a billet index here such things are well and completely covered in the relevant sections in Annemann's Practical Mental Effects22 and Corinda's thirteen Steps To Mentalismz I use the kind described by Annemann, although a billet-size version of the Corinda-Page 0,5 Index would also work fine. A...
Quantum
On your table is a simple wooden stand holding five of your business cards one at a time five spectators come up and, unseen by you, exchange any ofthe cards in the stand lor a personal credit card. This having been done you collect the five credit cards from the stand and proceed to link them with their owners. The 'simple wooden stand' is, of course, a Quant i men till stand working will be obvious to the lucky owners of this rare prop. One point in some stands the slit where the cards are...
A Pros View
Some years ago 1 met a master'scope worker1 though he was in bis late sixties then, he may still be alive and active and therefore I will only identify him by his initials DD. Most of DD's work was done in dime stores, but it was unlike a usual pitch in that he did not seek to build a large 'tip', or group of potential customers, Instead, his method was to do continuous readings, using the center tear the reading was 'free'but to get it the customer had to buy a Sun-sign horoscope and Solar...
Ta Waters
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