Author: Sam Dalal
Publisher: New Dawn
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 184
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120723872
Description
This book will teach you how to be a magician. Some of the lessons cover the techniques of performing magic, while others cover magic tricks for you to perform at a magic show - at a party or at any informal gathering.
Wouldn’t you love to have a trick up your sleeve? Pull a rabbit out of a hat? Pluck bank notes out of the air? Change one pigeon into three?
Well here’s your chance.
Revealed to you in this book are the secrets of magic – a variety of techniques that will deceive the mind and eye. So use that sleight of hand and part those curtains to find the secrets – and, abracadabra, it’s magic!
Contents
Introduction
The Real Secrets of Magic
One-Way Handkerchief
Waterproof Fingers
Impossible Balance
Floating Coin
Karate Straw
Intoxicating Images
Heavy Legs
Super Finger
Smoke at your Fingertips
Violet Smoke
Magic Smoke
Slippery Money
Strong Money
A Sense of Time
Ghost Taps
Flying Rubber Band
Unlinking Pins
Solid through Solid
Invisible Tear
I have your Number!
Blankety Blank Trick
Your Stars and You
The Hangman’s Noose
Cutting a Rope in Three
Rope Through the Neck
Spook Knots
Magical Knotting
Magical ‘Un-Knotting’
Spectators Cut the Aces
Ladies First
Matching Count
Fifty-one to One
Forcing a Card?
Set-up Deck
Afghan Bands
The Magician’s Force
Paddle Magic
Certificate of Merit
Goodbye Banner
The Change Bag
Spirit Slates
Square Circle Production
The Ghost Tube
Conclusion