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Farelli's Card Magic
Farelli's Card Magic | |
Author | Victor Farelli |
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Publisher | E. Bagshawe & Co. |
Publication Date | 1933 |
Language | English |
Pages | 105 |
Subject | Card Magic |
FARELLI’S CARD MAGIC:
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON LITTLE-KNOWN CARD SLEIGHTS, INCLUDING NUMEROUS NEW CARD PROBLEMS By VICTOR FARELLI
Editor of
"The Odin Rings.”
Author of
"The Master Speller"
"Controlled Coincidence"
"The Mystic Seven"
Illustrated by Seventy-eight Photographs and Sketches, also many Diagrams.
CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Index of Illustrations
PART ONE
Chapter 1 - FLOURISHES
Fancy Shuffles
- The Standard "Waterfall" Shuffle
- The “Double Waterfall" Shuffle
- The “Spring” Shuffle
The Cards on the Arm
- The “Throw”
- The “V.F. Throw and Turn"
- The “Slide”
- The Mulholland “Grab"
- The Back to Front “Toss”
- Spreading Two Packs
- The “Dart Forward”
- The Weyer “Gather-Up”
- An Easy Combination
The “Boomerang” Card
- Throwing Two Cards in Succession
- Throwing Cards with Both Hands
- Card Caught with Hand at Side
- Throwing Two Cards Together
- Catching a Card with Scissors
- Addition to Cutting a Card in the Air
- Loaded Card for “Boomerang”
The “One Hand Drop”
- The Cards to Use
- The “Blindfold Drop”
- The Vertical “One Hand Drop”
- The “Ambidextrous” Drop
Chapter 2—PASSES
- The “Drop" to Cover the Pass
- A Common Fault
- Turning the Pack to Hide the Pass
- The “Move” that Mystified Downs
- Dr. Elliott’s Presentation
- The Rubber Band Version
- The “Weyer” Version
- The Improved “Bluff” Pass
- The “Charlier” Pass
- The “Veneri” Move
Chapter 3-SUBSTITUTES FOR THE PASS
- The “Mahatma” Substitutes
- First Version
- Second Version
- Third Version
- The Bagshawe Substitute
- The “Riffle” Substitutes
- Using a “Longitudinal Bridge”
- Using the Veneri “Flesh” Break
- The “Strip Cut” Shuffle Substitute
- Eliminating the Pass for Forcing
- The “Strip” Cut
- “Sighting”
- Shuffling to the Centre
- By means of the “In-jog”
- Pack Cut by Spectator
- The “Continental” Cut
Chapter 4—FORCING
- Timing
- Balance
- Some “Imperfections”
- Closing the Fan
- Suggesting Liberty of Choice
- Aggressiveness
- Exposing on the Stage
- The Nervous Assistant
- Choosing a “Force"
- A “Tip” from Spain
- The Table “Spread”
- A Simple Infallible Force
- The Touch Method
- The “Pencil” Force
Chapter 5—FALSE SHUFFLING
- Should Cards be Shuffled?
- The Roumanian “Fan” Shuffle
- The “Lace-Through” Table Shuffle
- Learning the Sleight
- The Interlocking Shuffle
- The “Waterfall” Blind Shuffle
- The Oblique Cut
- The Shuffle
- The “Strip Cut” False Shuffle
- The “Milking” Shuffle
- “Setting” the Pack
- A Substitute for False Shuffling
Chapter 6—PALMING
- The Cards to Use
- Common Faults
- Curling the Forefinger
- Stillness of the Arm
- Spreading the Thumb
- The Longitudinal Grip
- The Devant “Mark-Off”
Chapter 7-SECOND DEALING
- The First Method
- First Exercise : Moving a Pair
- Second Exercise : The Withdrawal
- Third Exercise : Seizing the Second Card
- Fourth Exercise : The “Swing”
- The Second Method
PART TWO
Chapter 8—Miscellaneous SLEIGHTS and “TIPS”
- A Link with the Past
- A Clean Slip
- A Little-known “Glimpse"
- The Veneri “Flesh” Break
- The Veneri Discovery
- A General Utility “Location”
- Disposal of Located Card
- Suggestions A “Sucker Gag ”
- Returning a Card to the “Fan”
- Thumb-Counting
- Crimp and Riffle Location
- The Goldin Visible “Change”
- The Houdini “Bluff” Change
- The “Left-About” Change
- To “Sight” the Bottom Card
- How to “Bridge”
- For the Table “Spread” Force
- The Tail of the “Q”
- Cards with White Borders
- The Mexican Turn-Over
- To Make Cards “Slippery”
- Obtaining a “Stock” With a Borrowed Pack
- Learning New Sleights
Chapter 9—TRICKS BASED ON THE “GLIDE"
- The Three Packets
- The Partagas “Sell”
- A Matter of Thought
Chapter 10—EASY EFFECTS
- Subtlety versus Manipulation
- A “Close-Work” Discovery
- The “Follow-Up”
- The “Soo” Stripper Pack
- The “Double Crimp”
Chapter 11—THE CARD TO WALLET
- A Strange Hallucination
- Up His Sleeve
- The “Sandwich”
- A Double Surprise
- The Original Card to Pocket
- For Conjurers Only
- Pure Bluff
- With an Unprepared Pocket-Book
Chapter 12-MORE TRICKS
- The “Do-it-Yourself” Discovery
- The Veneri “Turn”
- Four from Five Leaves One
- The “Slick” Ace
- A Study in Blue and White
- The “Simplex” Thirty Cards
- The Floating Image
- Slightly Different Presentation
- An Additional Effect
- History and “Invention”
L’ENVOI