Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

Professor Hoffmann · 1876 · 750 pages

Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

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To Make Four Cards change from Eights to Twos, from Black to Red, etc. 71 A Card having been Drawn and Returned, and the Pack Shuffled, to make it Appear at such Number as the Company choose 73 The same Trick with several Cards, and by a Different Method 75 The “Three Card” Trick 76 To Nail a Chosen Card to the Wall 77 The Inseparable Sevens 77 The Inseparable Aces 79 Having placed the Four Aces in different positions in the Pack, to make the two Black change places with the two Red ones, and finally to bring all Four together in the Middle of the Pack 80 A Card having been thought of, to make such Card Vanish from the Pack, and be Discovered wherever the Performer pleases 83 To cause a Number of Cards to Multiply invisibly in a Person’s keeping 84 The Pack being divided into two Portions, placed in the keeping of two different Persons, to make Three Cards pass invisibly from the One to the Other 86 To allow several Persons each to draw a Card, and the Pack having been Shuffled, to make another Card drawn haphazard change successively into each of those first chosen 87 To make Four Aces change to Four Kings, and Four Kings to Four Aces 90 Having made Four Packets of Cards with an Ace at the bottom of each, to bring all Four Aces into whichever Packet the Company may choose 91 To Change the Four Aces, held tightly by a Person, into Four Indifferent Cards 93

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