Hey Presto!: Amazing magic tricks to confound and astound

136 Pages·2013·4.495 MB·English

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INTRODUCTION 6 8. The Houdini Card 36
NINE IMPORTANT NOTES 9. Choose a Card 38
FOR THE MAGICIAN 8
10. No Choice 40
TRICKS OF THE TRADE 10 11. Magic Scissors 42
* EIGHT FAMOUS MAGICIANS OF
THE 20™ AND 2IST CENTURIES * 44
CARD TRICKS 16
1. Sticky Fingers 18
2. Gobsmacker 20 COIN TRICKS 46
3. The See-through Card 22 * TEN MAGIC SONGS * 48
4. The Dream Card 2S 12. The Bold Coin Vanish SO
5. The Circus Card 28 13. Penetration S2
* MAGICAL STAGE NAMES * 30 14. The Snappy Coin Trick 54
6. A Mathematical Certainty 32 15. Money to Burn 56
7. The Reversed Card 34 * THE AMAZING HARRY HOUDINI * 60
SAFETY PIN TRICKS 62 GENERAL TRICKS 86
16. Spooky Pins 64 24. The Book of Spells 88
17. Hanky Panky 65 25. Rising Ring and Wand 90
18. A Ripping Yarn 66 26. The Wonder Wizard 92
* MIC QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS * 68 27. The Money Maker 94
19. Pin in a Spin 70 28. The Penetrating Pen Mystery 96
* MAGIC WORDS * 72 29. Ring-in Ring-on 98
30. Slippery Silk 100
ROPE AND KNOT TRICKS 74
31. Tightrope Ball 102
20. Handcuffed 76 32. The Box Jumper 104
21. Believe It or Knot 78 33. The Floating Lady 106
22. Cut and Restored Rope 80 * MIC PUCES * 108
23. Ring Off 82 34. The Haunted Key no
* TOP TEN HARRY POTTER 35. Short and Sweet 112
MAGIC SPELLS * 84
36. Pencil Pusher 114
37. Cup and Spoon Sorcery 116
38. Mightier Than the Sword 118
39. Counter Choice 120
40. Lazy Linking Chains 122
41. The Disappearing Dice 124
* EIGHT GREAT MIC TRICKS * 126
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 128
Magic tricks have amazed us for thousand of years. These days, illusions
and advanced magic tricks are so convincing, so utterly compelling to
watch, that they must be real, surely? As unbelievable as some tricks
may seem — from the simple 'wobbly coin' trick to the most complex
deck shuffle — what we are watching is not real, it is pure deception.
Sleight of hand, tricks of the mind and a beautifully orchestrated system
of bluffs with intriguing psychology and perfomance, convince our
brains into thinking that all this magical majesty must be happening.
Moreover — and this is the most magical part of all — we are all quite
happy to be deceived, for the world of suspended disbelief is a
beautiful world indeed.
The world's greatest and most-Oelebrated magicians, conjurors and
illusionists can make us believe the unbelievable, and the impossible
seem possible. But, of course, just like everybody else, these conjurors
had to start somewhere: they too had to learn the simple (but effective)
card tricks, the easy (but imaginative) coin tricks and the basic (but
totally mindboggling) sleight of hand tricks before advancing to more
innovative, radical and daring performances.
e * HEY PRESTO!