Mental Magic

Outstanding collection of nearly 200 crowd-pleasing mental magic feats requiring no special equipment. Author offers insider's tips and expert advice on techniques, presentation, diversions, patter, staging, more.

Professor Picanumba has dozens of surefire tricks up his sleeve — and he's willing to show junior mathemagicians how to predict the answers to 88 word and number challenges. Includes solutions and illustrations.

Sixty-seven sure-fire mental feats to delight and mystify: mind reading with cards, instant ESP, identifying the owners of objects given to you in random order, number prediction, much more. 73 illustrations.

Learn to read minds, conduct hypnosis, and predict the future! Instead of employing visual magic, the tricks in this book help aspiring performers exercise mental powers that seem downright supernatural. A seasoned magician shares his professional secrets throughout 15 psychological illusions, which include magic squares, stacked decks, thought transmissions, and other feints.

"Much of the text deals with the treatment of various illnesses and diseases through the application of mesmerism, though there are attempts to utilize spiritual access for empirical purposes. The author's intention is to teach readers how to induce a mesmeric state, as opposed to explaining the science behind it. A number of case studies are provided in which health is attained through the practices described, including incidents of sleep induction, cure of ulcers, rickets, colds, tooth- and earaches; the author does advise, however, that until the reader is more thoroughly acquainted with the science and application of mesmerism, not to attempt to cure epilepsy or skin diseases. Welton was a surgical instrument-maker and spiritualist, and along with his wife Sarah claimed to have invented the 'planchette,' a fore-runner of the Ouija board, which is described herein. The book was edited by Robert H. Fryar, a publisher of occult works. Fryar includes some of his own material in an appendix, as well as a chapter on magical mirrors entitled, 'Treatise on mental magic; or, an historical and practical treatise on fascination,' translated from the work of the noted French spiritualist Louis Alphonse Cahagnet."--Antiquarian bookseller's description

The beginner's guide to mental magic No rabbits. No wands. Just dozens of first-rate effects, illusions, and tricks guaranteed to amaze. Mind Magic & Mentalism For Dummies pulls back the curtain and introduces the secret world of mentalism for the first time. With this book and the included DVD, budding practitioners have everything they need to master some of the most astounding illusions imaginable from exercising psychic powers and reading minds to harnessing mental energy to control fire and bend metal from across the stage. Each effect in the book is presented from three perspectives: what the audience sees, how the trick is performed, and how to present it in a way that thrills spectators, making it the comprehensive, essential guide to blowing your audience away. The DVD includes performances of many of the effects outlined in the book to help readers put the information into action Provides both introductory-level lessons on the art of performing and a host of great effects that will meet the needs of beginners Mind Magic & Mentalism For Dummies is the essential introduction to this mysterious art that can seemingly provide readers with the powers of clairvoyance, mind control, divination, and precognition. Note - CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase.