Practical Mental Magic by Theodore Annemann

Author:Theodore Annemann [Annemann, Theodore]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Games & Activities, Magic
ISBN: 9780486156613
Google: JIy7KkwuMusC
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-04-27T00:19:50.415523+00:00

PHANTOM HAND

OSCAR WEIGLE, JR.

Effect: A number of white pasteboard cards are shown to be all different and to contain a number on one side, all numbers varying in the hundreds and thousands. The cards are shuffled, and after cutting, a spectator removes five, holding them number side down. On a slate the performer now chalks, “THE TOTAL OF THE NUMBERS SELECTED WILL BE,” explaining that a helpful spirit will write in chalk the total of the addition to be arrived at presently. Another slate is given to a spectator, who copies the numbers selected on the slate and then adds them up. While this is being done, the first slate is given to another person to hold.

The copying and adding being finished, the spectator holds his slate for all to see and note the total. The second spectator shows his slate but no spirit writing is yet to be seen. The performer takes it back, saying something must have detained the spirit control, and starts to erase the words. They are seen to change to numbers and, upon comparison with the first slate, every one of the numbers coincide exactly! And not only is the correct total revealed, but all figures of the addition check, so that both slates look alike!

Preparation: The basic principle is the same as that used in “Before Your Eyes,” page 168. This presentation is good either for a repeat show, or a place where playing cards are not suitable. The cards used are of white drawing board, playing card size. About 30 or 40 can be used. With bold strokes of black India ink letter the cards, numbering them from 100 to 1999. Make more of the “thousand” cards than the “hundreds,” it being in keeping with the effect.

The five cards responsible for the effect are forced. In order from the top down they read: 742, 1072, 1712, 1315 and 1272. When added together they total 6113. The five cards are on top of the deck to start, and are kept there during the shuffle.

The pack is shown with the numbers towards the audience. In squaring the cards, the top 6 or 7 are held by the left hand while the right turns the rest “face down” on them. Advance to a spectator with the pack in your left hand, and have him lift off some of the cards. As you ask if he cut at any point he wished, the misdirection allows you to turn over the packet in your hand and then the top five are taken. That’s the force.

For the slate preparation print the words as shown in the first illustration. covering the entire surface of the slate with the message. Make the downstrokes of all “E’s” slightly curved—also the “L” of the word “total.” The “S” in the word “numbers” is made to resemble a “5” and is unnoticed with the rest of the letters. The “W” in the last line is curved and looped so that the first part of it looks like a ”6”.

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