HERMANNS OF
BLACK ART EXPOSED
Herrmann's Book of Magic Black Art Fully Exposed A COMPLETE
AND PRACTICAL GUIDE TO
DRAWING-ROOM
A^D STAGE
MAGIC FOR
PROFESSIONALS AND AMATEURS, INCLUDING A COMPLETE EXPOSURE OF THE BLACK ART.
BY
PROF. HERRMANN. FULLY ILLUSTRATED.
Chicago FREDERICK J.
DRAKE
Publishers
& COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, I 9 0 3 BY FREDERICK J. DRAKE & CO. CHICAGO, ILL., U.S.A.
CONTENTS Ammunition, Conjurer's Anti-Spirtualistic Tricks . , Artful Conjurer, An
101 88 27
Ball, Dissolving 71 Fancy Sleight With 71 Handkerchief and Tumbler 73 Balls and Basins 66 Annihilation of 65 Color-Changing 67 Diminishing i. .. . 68 Black Art Exposed 131 Banquet, Conjurer's 153 Bonbons, How to Produce from Handkerchief 161 Balls, Manipulation of 60 Multiplication of • 63 Bird, How to Shoot and Bring to Life Again 146 Balls, Eed and Black, Changing 68 Tricks With 60 Body, How to Set on Fire 159 Bran and Dove Plates 114 Burned Handkerchief Restored .* 139 Candle Ends, Eatable Cut Arm Off Without Pain
140 141
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CONTENTS
Candle, How to Light With a Glass of Water How to Light With Smoke and Handkerchief Coin and Candle and Lemons Changing Fold, a New Magical Production of Passed into a Matchbox Passed Through the Body Pocket Vanish for Swallowing Transferred from Tumbler to Ball of Wool. . Vanish for Duplicate Wandering Wine Glass and Paper Cone Coins, Hat and Plate Tricks With Vanishing in Sheet of Flame Color-Changing Balls Communication, Mysterious Cards, How to Make Them Jump and Eun on Table. How to Convey into a Nut.. Cut, Eestored Cone, How to Make Move on Table Dictionary Trick Dress, The Egg, How to Make Change Its Position Exploding Bubbles Eat Shavings, How to
147 147 137 27 30 24 26 25 33 29 32 30 35 29 25 33 34 25 37 67 94 162 163 Ill 163 95 13 163 103 160
CONTENTS Finger, Palm Fire Eating Fire Flash Flash Paper Flight of Coin, Invisible Faded Rose Restored Freeze Water by Shaking Fowl, How to Kill and Bring to Life How to Make Seem Dead • Flash of Lightning When Anyone Enters the Room.
7 21 103 101 100 28 139 148 147 158 159
Garter Trick 104 Glass, How to Fill With Beer and Water Without Mixing 146 Handkerchief and Candle Incombustible Ball Cabinet Fired into Gentleman's Hair Flying Mechanical Pull for Vanishing Passed into Spectator's Pocket Peregrinations of a Produced from Collar Spirit Tube for Producing and Vanishing Vanisher . .• Color Changing of ." How to Restore Magical Production of Tricks With
41 148 70 45 43 56 54 43 41 42 93 57 47 50 151 47 41
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Hat Tricks Eggs Produced from Incubator Loading Magnetized Tricks With Head of the Decapitated Speaking How to Cut Off from Man
76 85 86 80 8J. 76 134 143
Iron Changed into Silver How to Melt Ink Changed to Water
148 156 156
Liquids, Two Cold, Produce Fire Cold Become Hot Color Changing Long-Distance Second Sight
148 148 ] 39 97
Metamorphosis, Hideous Magic Breath Miscellaneous Tricks Mystery of the Floating Head Make a Watch Stop or Go At Will
146 144 100 135 141
Name, Mysterious Needle, to Make Float
89 149
Party, to Make Appear Ghastly Palming Pistol, Conjurer's Postal Trick, New Paper Cone, Watch, Rabbit and Boxes Programme and Coin
145 18 152 90 128 37
CONTENTS Quarter vs. Dime
91 32
Eeverse Palm 22 Eouge et Noir 72 Eing, Climbing 88 Stone, How to Keep in Motion 162 Supernatural Appearance 149 Stone, How to Break With Fist 150 Skeleton, Dancing, The 133 Stick, How to Break When Placed on Two Glasses. 159 Servantes 15 Slate Tricks 91 Smoke from Empty Pipe and Tumbler 102 Spirit Calculator 89 Swallowing Needles 158 Tambourine, Mysterious Table, The Thimble, Ubiquitous Tumbler, to Knock Through a Table Teaspoons, Magical Transformation Tourniquet Tube and Ball Hydrostatic Tumbler, Hydrostatic To Drive Through Another
112 14 108 132 150> • 149* 20 106 122 124 133
Vessel That Will Let W a t e r Out a t Bottom When the Mouth I s Uncorked 153" Walnut Shells and Pea Wand, The Multiplying
103 17 110
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"Wandering Coin 25 Watch, Glass and Handkerchief 126 Water, Cold Changed to Hot 142 Mystery 117 Eetained in Cylinder and Inverted Tumbler. 138 Wizard's Breakfast 119 Writing Name on Card 149 Wandering Beer 115 Water Turned to Wine 144
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION. There are one or two leading principles to be borne in mind by anyone taking up the study of magic. The first and foremost is, Never tell the audience what you are going to do before you do it. If you do, the chances of detection are increased tenfold, as the spectators, knowing what to expect, will the more readily arrive at the true method of bringing about the result. It follows as a natural consequence that you must never perform the same trick twice in the same evening. I t is very unpleasant to have to refuse an encore; and should you be called upon to repeat a trick study to vary it as much as possible, and to bring it to a different conclusion. There will generally be found more ways than one of working a particular trick. It is an axiom in conjuring that the best trick loses half its effect on repetition. Should a hitch occur in the carrying out of the programme by the accidental dropping of an article, or from any other cause, above all things do not get confused, but treat the matter as a good joke, and meet the difficulty with a smile, making use of some such expression as the following: "Well, you see I put it down there to show that it would go. It is perfectly solid and doefs