All You Wanted To Know About

The Secrets of Magic Book

by Sam Dalal

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!

A softcover book of 6" x 4.5"in size, 184 pages, printed and illustrated with about 50 tricks for the beginner in magic. Includes valuable tips on presentation, showmanship and misdirection. Tricks with cards, coins, ropes, silks, mental effects, magic with numbers, apparatus to make and more.  In this book you will learn How To Float A Coin On Water, How To Hypnotize A Person So He Cannot Lift His Leg Off The Ground, How To Produce Smoke From Your Fingertips, How To Unlink Two Linked Safety Pins, How To Escape The Hangman’s Noose and much more.

This book does not just give a few ‘secrets’, rather it has been written with the object of making the reader a complete magician. Every step from the theory to the practice of magic has been explained. Valuable advice and suggestions on Presentation and Showmanship that form the core of a better magic show are included.

 

The author has also explained some magic effects used by professional magicians, like Making Message Appear On A Blank Slate, Producing Handkerchiefs, Flowers, Sweets And Even A Live Rabbit From An Empty Box And Tube and much more such baffling effects you see in a magic show. The props you need to show these are either ordinary household objects or you can easily make them following the clear instructions in the book.

 

Contents Include:

• 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
• 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

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!

 

Details: All You Wanted To Know About The Secrets of Magic Book

184 pages, softcover, 6 inches by 4 1/2 inches in size.

Skill Level: Beginner, suitable for ages 7 to adults.