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MAGIC FOR EVERYBODY
BOOKS BY JOSEPH DEEMING
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SHIPS AND CARGOES THE N E W BOOK OF MAGIC MAGIC FOR EVERYBODY
YOUNG
MODERNS
BOOKSHELF
M A G I C FOR
E V E R Y B O D Y The 250 Best and Newest Feats of Magic Chosen for the Ease with Which They Can Be Performed. BY
JOSEPH LEEMING
THE SUN DIAL PRESS, INC. GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1 9 2 8 , BY DOUBLEDAY, DOR AW & COMPANY, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PRINTED IK THE UNITED 8TATE8 AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, V. Y.
DEDICATED TO
BILL AND PETER DOUGLAS
FOREWORD Every trick in this book has been chosen for two qualities—the maximum of effectiveness and mystification and the minimum requirement of skill or sleight of hand. Simplicity in execution has been kept in mind throughout, so that any and every one will be able to perform all the tricks in the book after a short period of practice. No elaborate apparatus is needed in connection with any of the tricks, and most of them can be performed at any time and at any place with the common objects which can always be obtained.
CONTENTS TRICKS WITH RINGS PAGE
The Disappearing Ring The Flying Ring The Knotted Ring on String Trick . . . . Passing a Ring Through a Handkerchief . . The Traveling Ring The Enchanted Ring The Ring and Pencil Trick The Dissolving Rings
3 4 5 6 7 7 9 10
T R I C K S WITH CARDS
An Easy Way to Make the Pass . . . . The False Shuffle Locating a Chosen Card . . . . . . . The Bent Cards A Surprise Finish The Card in the Handkerchief Telling Which Card Is Cut Catching a Chosen Card The Traveling Card Mind Reading with Cards Another Mind-Reading Trick Card Telepathy ix
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The Fixed Pack The New Q Trick The Five-Pile Force Card Juggling Card Balanced on a Glass Card Disappearing from the Pack . . Impromptu Rising-Card Trick The Four-Ace Trick Another Four-Ace Trick Calling the Cards The Master Cut The Obedient Card The Svengali Card Trick The Cards from the Pocket Instant Card Reading The Yogi Wonder-Card Trick The Kings and Sevens Telling What Card Is Thought of . . The Reversed Card The Suspended Cards The Torn-Corner Card The One, Two, Three Card Trick . . The Cut Card The Reversed Pack Finding a Chosen Card The Magician's Choice The Hidden Total A Great Mind-Reading Trick The Card from the Pocket . . . . An Indetectable Card Trick
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TRICKS WITH MATCHES PACK
The Lightning Match Vanish Two from One The Box of Lighted Matches The Balanced Match The Hypnotized Match Box The Full and E m p t y Match Box . . . The New Full and E m p t y Match Box Materializing Matches Sawing Through a Match Box . . . . Match-Box Monte The Mystic Matches The Broken Match The Magnetic Match Box The Heads-Up Match Box The Match Triangles Seeing Through a Match Box Two Amusing Match Tricks
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The Multiplying Match Box Matchstick Mathematics
55 55 56 57 57 58 59 60 60 61 62 63 63 64 64 65 66
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TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS
The The The The The The The
Appearing Handkerchief Handkerchief from the Pocket • • • Handkerchief from the Coat Pocket . . Magic Appearing Knot Flying Handkerchiefs Vanishing Knot Spinning Handkerchief
73 73 74 75 76 77 78
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The Knot T h a t Won't Stay Tied . . . . The Burned and Restored Handkerchief . . The Dissolving Knots The Self-Untying Handkerchief . . . . The Knotted Handkerchiefs The Handkerchief from a Match Flame . . Balancing a Handkerchief A Rapid Handkerchief Tie Stretching a Handkerchief The Instantaneous Knot Another Instantaneous Knot The Gypsy Knot The Handkerchief and Apple Trick. . . .
79 80 81 81 82 83 84 84 85 86 87 88 90
T R I C K S WITH CIGARS AND CIGARETTES
An Impromptu Cigarette Vanisher . . . . The Turn-Around Cigarette The Mesmerized Cigar Balancing a Cigarette The Magnetized Cigar The Gravity Defying Cigarette Levitating a Cigarette
95 96 96 97 98 98 99
T R I C K S WITH N U M B E R S
The Mystic Addition The Canceled Figure Mental Arithmetic The Arithmetical Watch The Magic Total
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103 104 105 105 106
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xiii PACE
The Birthday Numbers The Square of Fifteens Telling the Number Thought of The Devil's Watch Dial Which Hand?
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TRICKS WITH COINS
A Simple Coin Vanish The Disappearing Coin The Coin Pass Multiplying Money The Handkerchief Coin Vanish Odd or Even Heads or Tails Coins and Cards The Ring and Coin Vanish The New Ring and Coin Vanish Vanishing a Spinning Coin An Effective Coin Vanish The Multiplying Half Dollar The Coin in the Paper Coin Telepathy The Twenty-Penny Trick The Flying Coins The Obedient Coin . ^ An Impromptu Coin Vanisher Where Did It Go? The Tube and Coin Disappearance Catching a Coin on a Plate The Money Box
113 113 114 115 115 116 117 117 118 . . . . 1 1 9 119 120 121 121 122 123 124 125 126 126 . . . 127 128 128
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Money from the Air The Coin in the Orange The Mystic Coin The Melted Coin The Paper Cone and Coins Handkerchief, Coin, and Match Box The Balanced Coin The Climbing Coin The Spirit Coin The Traveling Coins Passing a Coin Through a Table . The Dissolving Coin . . . . _ . The Adhesive Coin The X-Ray Coin Trick The Penetrating Coin Mixed Multiplication
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129 130 131 132 132 133 134 135 135 136 137 138 139 140 140 141
TRICKS WITH DICE AND DOMINOES
The Magician's Pair o' Dice Naming the Unseen Die Spots The Dice in the Glass The Magnetic Dice The Transferred Dominoes The Domino Mind Reader Dice Divination
145 146 146 147 147 148 149
EXPERIMENTS IN MAGNETISM
The Hand and Head Trick The Fingertip Trick
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The The The The The
Broomstick Trick Horizontal Chair Trick Broomstick and Circle Trick Lifting Trick Magnetized Chair
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154 155 155 156 157
The Labors of Hercules The Three Coins Parlor Thought Transference The Magic Circle Walking Through a Visiting Card . . . . The Visible Invisible Lighting a Candle Without Touching the Wick The Ring and Pencil Trick Invisible Barriers The Bewitched Glass
161 161 162 162 163 163 164 165 165 166
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PARLOR TRICKS
TRICKS WITH PAPER
The The The The The The The The The The
Cigarette-Paper Trick Napkin-Tearing Trick Phcenix Ribbon Confetti Shower Paper and Knife Trick Cut-and-Restored Paper Ribbon . Knife-Edged Paper Colored Papers Floating Paper Ball Colored Number
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169 170 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177
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The The The The
Marked Paper Magnetized Papers Bengal Bands Good-Night Paper Trick
178 179 179 180
STRING T R I C K S AND R O P E T I E S
The Captives Freed The Slave Bangle Looping the Loop The Severed String The New Cut-and-Restored String . . . . The Released Cord The String and Nose Trick The Key and String Trick The Scissors and String Trick The Buttonhole and String Trick . . . . The Paper and Button Trick The Yarkand Rope Escape The Impromptu Thumb Tie The Excelsior Rope Tie The Strangle Rope Tie The Kellar Rope Tie
185 186 186 187 188 189 191 193 193 195 196 197 198 199 200 201
M I N D READING, SECOND SIGHT, AND SPIRIT T R I C K S
The Quick or the Dead The Mysterious Total The Chosen Number The Blindfold Second-Sight Act Which Object?
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205 206 207 208 209
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The Bank-Note Mind Reader Second Sight Chess Extraordinary The Spirit Slate The Spirit Message Spirit Writing The Thirsty Spirits The Number, Coin, and Book Trick The Spirits' Answer The Famous Book Test When the Spirits Whisper
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210 211 212 214 215 216 217 217 219 221 222
TRICKS WITH GLASSES
The Mystic Glass The Vanishing Glass The Balanced Glass Blowing Through a Glass The Glass and Plate Balance The Inverted Glass The Balanced Glasses
227 227 228 229 229 230 230
MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
Adam's Apple The Cut-and-Restored Tapes The Self-Starting Rolling Ball The Flying Ball The Coin, Handkerchief, and Ring Trick . The Ribbon and Orange Trick The Ambulating Egg
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Putting an Egg into a Bottle Balancing an Egg The Flying Pencils The Penetrating Pencil The Card and Pencil Balance The Loop and Pencil Trick The Jumping Pencil The Multiple Thread The Watch and President Trick . . . The Disappearing Thimble Catching a Thimble on the Finger . . . The Flying Thimble The Thimble Through the Handkerchief The Color-Changing Thimble The Separated Corks The Candle and Funnel Trick The Bottle and Straw Trick The Bread and Napkin Trick The Watch, Match, and String Trick . The Linking Paper Clips Black and White Beans
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TRICKS WITH RINGS
THE DISAPPEARING RING is one of the simplest methods to cause a ring or coin to disappear when you are performing without apparatus or in a strange house. Get a small rubber band, or if one of the small size is not obtainable, use an ordinary sized one and double it to make it smaller. The rubber band is secretly placed over the thumb and forefinger of the left hand, and a handkerchief is thrown over the hand to cover it. The ring is then placed in the center of the handkerchief, the thumb and forefinger of the left hand grasp it through the handkerchief and slip the rubber band over it, thus enclosing it in a little pocket whose mouth is closed by the rubber band. A pretense may be made of folding the handkerchief 3