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    Simple but Mystifying Magic Tricks with Cards, Matches, Money and Glasses
    Simple but Mystifying Magic Tricks with Cards, Matches, Money and Glasses
    Simple but Mystifying Magic Tricks with Cards, Matches, Money and Glasses
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    Simple but Mystifying Magic Tricks with Cards, Matches, Money and Glasses

    By Anon Anon

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    This unusual book, containing an impressive variety of magic tricks performed with small props, is sure to delight young and old alike. Its 86 pages contain a wealth of anecdote on a variety of tricks and stunts that are guaranteed to liven up your dinner party. Thoroughly recommended reading for the budding magician. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMay 6, 2015
    ISBN9781473395190
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      Simple but Mystifying Magic Tricks with Cards, Matches, Money and Glasses - Anon Anon

      manipulations.

      BEFORE YOU START

      HAVEN’T YOU ever wished you could fill in a dull moment at a party or among a friendly group with some clever or puzzling trick? Well, you can. Not everyone can say brilliant things, or make snappy comebacks, but you can get everyone envious of your mystifying and amusing tricks.

      Magic looks terribly difficult when you watch it, but it isn’t. That’s just part of the trick. Often the most amazing and amusing hocus-pocus requires only two or three practice tries to make you master of it. Some people imagine that they have to learn complicated sleight of hand before they can do tricks of magic, but this is all wrong. Some of the greatest masters of manipulation and prestidigitation (the hand is quicker than the eye) are very boring to watch, and require confederates, special apparatus, backgrounds of a particular color, and one thing and another that put their magic quite out of the ordinary person’s reach. On the other hand, you or anyone else, with a few matches, coins, napkins, bits of string and so forth can delight all your friends for half an hour with hilarious tricks.

      There are just a few things to remember before you get on to the tricks themselves—mainly a few pitfalls to stay out of. First of all, just having a large repertory of tricks doesn’t make an interesting magician. In fact, one of the dullest things to watch is a self-elected funny fellow trotting out trick after trick with an absorbed air, and stopping every minute to think how it goes next. People like this usually can’t be restrained from doing their stuff on any or no invitation. They are also likely to arm themselves with a variety of nuisance tricks—pestilential hand-shake buzzers, itching powder, collapsing spoons, rubber chewing gum, imitation ink splotches, etc.—and laugh like loons when somebody bites.

      Another type of pest, who imagines he’s a magician, haunts the novelty shops and buys every latest trick apparatus he sees—labyrinth purses, controllable dice, balls that go through rods, and rods that go through balls, decks of cards composed of fifty-two aces of spades, etc., etc.—and he challenges all his friends (?) to solve the puzzles, which is more than he could do himself until he read the directions four times.

      The truth is, it isn’t the trick, but the magician that makes some simple dodge into magic. You have to practice and acquire the air, the patter, the mannerisms. More than any repertory of tricks you could memorize, a professional finish will turn the most obvious catch into a neat shock and an amusing surprise to all who watch it. If you can tell a joke that rolls people in the aisles with a sudden punch finish, you are better equipped to be a magician than if you can deal yourself four royal flushes blindfold. It won’t do any good to show people things they can’t do, or surprise them with odd solutions to problems they couldn’t handle. They won’t enjoy that, even if you will. You have to entertain

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