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Reducing subject-magicTricks-gutenberg === reduce.pl bib === id = 27353 author = Branson, L. H. (Lionel Hugh) title = Indian Conjuring date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 14854 sentences = 848 flesch = 80 summary = rope trick that I have ever seen performed Shah Mahommed performing the egg bag trick Facing page 52 A neat little trick that can be performed by anybody who takes the A surprising little trick was once shewn to me by a performer whose The only rope trick I have ever seen performed by an Indian conjuror, The only rope trick that I have ever seen performed in India.] [Illustration: Shah Mahommed performing the Egg bag trick.] I will now describe the mango trick as I have seen it performed many trick being performed, let them take a copy of this little book and This ends the trick, though on occasions the performer orders the lad explanations while the tricks are being performed. trick performed, though in no instance do they give the place or the other persons who saw the trick done at that time and place. cache = ./cache/27353.txt txt = ./txt/27353.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 435 author = Houdini, Harry title = Miracle Mongers and Their Methods A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 39901 sentences = 1796 flesch = 71 summary = iron.--To cook in a burning cage.--Chabert's oven.--To eat coals of that a London appearance was arranged for the same year; and at Mr. Laston's rooms, 23 New Bond Street, her performance attracted the most Chabert took 20 grains of phosphorus, swallowed oil heated to nearly heat, the fire-king challenged any man living to drink a spoonful of clever performers drew quite fashionable audiences for a long time, and No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a enable the fireman to take into his hand burning or red-hot bodies. The last act in this extraordinary performance is the swallowing of a I have seen one of these performers on the street, in London, swallow a water worked those houses; but his performance met with little The feats which I saw him perform, a few days ago, were the following: performances, for eight or ten years; men of ordinary strength found cache = ./cache/435.txt txt = ./txt/435.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 12343 author = Rid, Samuel title = The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine Wherein is Deciphered All the Conueyances of Legerdemaine and Iugling, How They Are Effected, and Wherin They Chiefly Consist; Cautions to Beware of Cheating at Cardes and Dice, the Detection of the Beggerly Art of Alcumistry, and the Foppery of Foolish Cousoning Charmes, All Tending to Mirth and Recreation, Especially for Those That Desire to Haue the Insight and Priuate Practise Thereof date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 14835 sentences = 623 flesch = 78 summary = good speede, I know I haue runne thorow the hands of many, censured of palme of your hand, and so by vse, you shall not only seeme to put any candlesticks &c, then first seeme to put one ball into your left hand, and seeme to put the ball which is thought to be in your left hand with your left hand you leaue behinde you a great ball, or any other charmes seeme to conuey the same ball from vnder the same box or hand into your lap, it will seeme strange, for when you open your left one testor into your left hand, with words you shall make it seeme when you open your said left hand, there shall be nothing seene: and alwaies see what Cardes hee hath in his hand, So that a few ensamples The other vse of Cardes is to shew feates of Legerdemaine. cache = ./cache/12343.txt txt = ./txt/12343.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 34375 author = Unknown title = Hocus Pocus Junior: The Anatomie of Legerdemain Or, the art of jugling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly, so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practise. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 15216 sentences = 636 flesch = 82 summary = draw his cups and hold them all three in his right hand also, saying, ball in your right hand under the Cup noted B. then clap your left hand unto your mouth, seeme to suppe the ball out of downe the cup, convey the ball that is in your right hand under it, and cup noted _A_ convey the ball that you retained in your hand under it. Then with your right hand take up the second ball, and seeme to put it Then with your right hand take up the second ball, and seeme to put it holding the ball betweene your two middle fingers of your right hand, TAke a ball and lay it on the Table, and holding a knife in one hand by then seeme to put the Ball into your left hand, but let it flip into suddenly drawing your right hand thorow your left, you shall seeme to cache = ./cache/34375.txt txt = ./txt/34375.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36659 author = Stanyon, Ellis title = Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 46472 sentences = 2558 flesch = 77 summary = the right hand and actually place it in the left several times; then paper, then take it from the left hand to the right, letting the coin left hand is now closed and the piece apparently passed from the right coin is placed in the performer's right vest pocket, and is obtained by trick you place the left hand (holding the hooked coin) behind the body takes the red handkerchief in his right hand, passing the ball into the 1. Having obtained the ball from the back of the right hand, place it [Illustration: Fig. 25.--Ball in Position on Right Hand] 2. Close the right hand and place the ball on the top, (Fig. 25). Place the palm of the right hand (containing the ball) on appear to place the ball in the left hand, really opening the case to A duplicate of this small ball should be placed in the right hand cache = ./cache/36659.txt txt = ./txt/36659.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 36513 author = Ainslie, Arthur title = Water Wizardry: A collection of tricks in which water is the chief agent date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 30247 sentences = 1891 flesch = 85 summary = The trick is to drink the water, but in order to get the glass to your The trick is to pour the water into the empty glass and drink it, Pour some water into a glass and cover it with an opera hat. The performer pours water from the bottle into the glass; in fact, he The trick is, of course, to make the glass of water and the bottle Unknown to the audience the conjurer uses two bottles for this trick and In presenting this trick the conjurer begins by showing two small bowls right hand and pour some of the water into the faked bowl. If the conjurer uses a glass bowl he should have the water in a large The conjurer holds the card in his left hand with its face towards the takes the card in that hand and holds it over the jug of water, while cache = ./cache/36513.txt txt = ./txt/36513.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 32788 author = Hercat title = More Conjuring: Simple Tricks for Social Gatherings date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 20097 sentences = 1696 flesch = 90 summary = Throw the pack on the table and request some one to select a card. card." You push the pack forward in your left hand, allowing the bottom Place the palmed card face upward on the left hand top and taking the left hand away, which will leave the selected card When ready to present the trick, hand the pack to your friend and ask between twenty and forty cards, place the pack on the table, and hand add the palmed cards and hand the pile thus increased to person number fingers of the left hand, and palm the top card as before. and two middle fingers of the right hand raise the rest of the cards the first two fingers and thumb of right hand take the three other cards counted cards, and hand the pack to spectator, with the request that he same time jerk the coin in your left hand upwards into your right, and cache = ./cache/32788.txt txt = ./txt/32788.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 32368 author = De Caston, Herbert title = Peerless Prestidigitation Being a collection of entirely new ideas and effects in the fascinating art of modern magic date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 6859 sentences = 444 flesch = 80 summary = pack whilst held in the hand of the performer, who turns his head away the performer drops the cards face _upwards_ upon the table, and, to table and the five cards handed to the performer, he asks for one of cards rise from the pack whilst held in the performer's hand, and when conjurer palms off all the selected cards and hands the pack out to be cause the egg to leave the handkerchief and appear in his hand, and the handkerchief, and performer then calls attention to the egg on the the spectator to place his hand on his (performer's), he brings his performer--eventually placing it in the left hand (back to audience) open out handkerchief, and in centre in place of the egg he finds When you go to take egg, remove with left hand and place small _fêke_ containing white silk handkerchief in left hand. cache = ./cache/32368.txt txt = ./txt/32368.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 32492 author = Unknown title = Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works. date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 78643 sentences = 4151 flesch = 80 summary = fill the glass, and, laying a piece of paper or thin card over the drawing away the paper, you leave the water in the glass, with its water, dry it at a moderate heat, placing it on paper capable of on the inside of this box, place a piece of looking-glass that shall fixed at the bottom of the box, place a magnetic bar, two inches long, Procure some small glass bubbles, having a neck about an inch long, _To tell the Number of Points on Three Cards, placed under Three their faces upwards; place the second person's cards over the first, Let the person who has drawn the two cards deduct the number of each card, three-quarters of an inch long, may appear like a common-sized After the like manner let five persons draw the same card. There is another method of placing the small case, which is by letting cache = ./cache/32492.txt txt = ./txt/32492.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 50903 author = Sachs, Edwin Thomas title = Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs & Others date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 143331 sentences = 6704 flesch = 76 summary = placed the marked coin in the left hand, but in reality palm it. to perform this trick with a coin previously sewn in a handkerchief, right hand place the hat into the left one, the thumb on the brim, the (show left hand, at same time allowing coin to fall back in the right, CARD--THE LADY'S OWN TRICK--A RAPID CHANGE PASS--METHODS to look at the top card on the pack held in your left hand, and to the performer pretends to place each card, as chosen, upon a table, the box is wide open, and in the right-hand half is placed the card, cards require considerable sleight of hand in their performance; and CARD IN COURSE OF PERFORMING--PASSING HANDKERCHIEF OVER performer has balled up under the fingers of the hand holding the left the performer's hand, three of his own having been placed in the cache = ./cache/50903.txt txt = ./txt/50903.txt === reduce.pl bib === id = 42723 author = Houdini, Harry title = The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin date = pages = extension = .txt mime = text/plain words = 55254 sentences = 2766 flesch = 68 summary = Robert-Houdin's explanation of tricks performed by other magicians and Robert-Houdin's claims to the invention of automata and second-sight. [Illustration: Programme for the opening of Robert-Houdin's theatre in [Illustration: Writing and drawing figure claimed by Robert-Houdin as the writing and drawing figure claimed by Robert-Houdin, he brought to The writing and drawing figure claimed by Robert-Houdin as his original Concerning this trick, which Robert-Houdin claims as his invention, he Robert-Houdin worked The Mystic Bell trick in connection with The Clock. England by the time Robert-Houdin appeared in London in 1848. "Inexhaustible Bottle Trick" was used by Anderson before Robert-Houdin invented this trick arose between Robert-Houdin and Henri Robin, who Robin presented all the tricks and automata that Robert-Houdin claimed Robert-Houdin presented the trick for the first time at his own While Robert-Houdin, in his "Memoirs," claims to have invented the trick Robert-Houdin appeared in London for the last time in 1853, but in 1865 cache = ./cache/42723.txt txt = ./txt/42723.txt Building ./etc/reader.txt 50903 32492 36659 50903 36659 34375 number of items: 11 sum of words: 465,709 average size in words: 42,337 average readability score: 78 nouns: hand; trick; card; performer; cards; water; glass; handkerchief; table; paper; audience; time; end; piece; pack; ball; one; illustration; top; coin; hands; side; hat; bottle; fire; person; bottom; fingers; number; way; finger; tricks; method; tube; box; place; manner; inches; coins; air; course; mouth; wand; position; effect; case; stage; part; means; thumb verbs: is; 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three dimensions: hand trick card; robert houdin trick; water bowl glass; hand say left; supreme 9d alley file(s): ./cache/50903.txt, ./cache/42723.txt, ./cache/435.txt, ./cache/12343.txt, ./cache/32368.txt titles(s): Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs & Others | The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin | Miracle Mongers and Their Methods A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc. | The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine Wherein is Deciphered All the Conueyances of Legerdemaine and Iugling, How They Are Effected, and Wherin They Chiefly Consist; Cautions to Beware of Cheating at Cardes and Dice, the Detection of the Beggerly Art of Alcumistry, and the Foppery of Foolish Cousoning Charmes, All Tending to Mirth and Recreation, Especially for Those That Desire to Haue the Insight and Priuate Practise Thereof | Peerless Prestidigitation Being a collection of entirely new ideas and effects in the fascinating art of modern magic Type: gutenberg title: subject-magicTricks-gutenberg date: 2021-06-06 time: 21:06 username: emorgan patron: Eric Morgan email: emorgan@nd.edu input: facet_subject:"Magic tricks" ==== make-pages.sh htm files ==== make-pages.sh complex files ==== make-pages.sh named enities ==== making bibliographics id: 36513 author: Ainslie, Arthur title: Water Wizardry: A collection of tricks in which water is the chief agent date: words: 30247 sentences: 1891 pages: flesch: 85 cache: ./cache/36513.txt txt: ./txt/36513.txt summary: The trick is to drink the water, but in order to get the glass to your The trick is to pour the water into the empty glass and drink it, Pour some water into a glass and cover it with an opera hat. The performer pours water from the bottle into the glass; in fact, he The trick is, of course, to make the glass of water and the bottle Unknown to the audience the conjurer uses two bottles for this trick and In presenting this trick the conjurer begins by showing two small bowls right hand and pour some of the water into the faked bowl. If the conjurer uses a glass bowl he should have the water in a large The conjurer holds the card in his left hand with its face towards the takes the card in that hand and holds it over the jug of water, while id: 27353 author: Branson, L. H. (Lionel Hugh) title: Indian Conjuring date: words: 14854 sentences: 848 pages: flesch: 80 cache: ./cache/27353.txt txt: ./txt/27353.txt summary: rope trick that I have ever seen performed Shah Mahommed performing the egg bag trick Facing page 52 A neat little trick that can be performed by anybody who takes the A surprising little trick was once shewn to me by a performer whose The only rope trick I have ever seen performed by an Indian conjuror, The only rope trick that I have ever seen performed in India.] [Illustration: Shah Mahommed performing the Egg bag trick.] I will now describe the mango trick as I have seen it performed many trick being performed, let them take a copy of this little book and This ends the trick, though on occasions the performer orders the lad explanations while the tricks are being performed. trick performed, though in no instance do they give the place or the other persons who saw the trick done at that time and place. id: 32368 author: De Caston, Herbert title: Peerless Prestidigitation Being a collection of entirely new ideas and effects in the fascinating art of modern magic date: words: 6859 sentences: 444 pages: flesch: 80 cache: ./cache/32368.txt txt: ./txt/32368.txt summary: pack whilst held in the hand of the performer, who turns his head away the performer drops the cards face _upwards_ upon the table, and, to table and the five cards handed to the performer, he asks for one of cards rise from the pack whilst held in the performer''s hand, and when conjurer palms off all the selected cards and hands the pack out to be cause the egg to leave the handkerchief and appear in his hand, and the handkerchief, and performer then calls attention to the egg on the the spectator to place his hand on his (performer''s), he brings his performer--eventually placing it in the left hand (back to audience) open out handkerchief, and in centre in place of the egg he finds When you go to take egg, remove with left hand and place small _fêke_ containing white silk handkerchief in left hand. id: 32788 author: Hercat title: More Conjuring: Simple Tricks for Social Gatherings date: words: 20097 sentences: 1696 pages: flesch: 90 cache: ./cache/32788.txt txt: ./txt/32788.txt summary: Throw the pack on the table and request some one to select a card. card." You push the pack forward in your left hand, allowing the bottom Place the palmed card face upward on the left hand top and taking the left hand away, which will leave the selected card When ready to present the trick, hand the pack to your friend and ask between twenty and forty cards, place the pack on the table, and hand add the palmed cards and hand the pile thus increased to person number fingers of the left hand, and palm the top card as before. and two middle fingers of the right hand raise the rest of the cards the first two fingers and thumb of right hand take the three other cards counted cards, and hand the pack to spectator, with the request that he same time jerk the coin in your left hand upwards into your right, and id: 435 author: Houdini, Harry title: Miracle Mongers and Their Methods A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc. date: words: 39901 sentences: 1796 pages: flesch: 71 cache: ./cache/435.txt txt: ./txt/435.txt summary: iron.--To cook in a burning cage.--Chabert''s oven.--To eat coals of that a London appearance was arranged for the same year; and at Mr. Laston''s rooms, 23 New Bond Street, her performance attracted the most Chabert took 20 grains of phosphorus, swallowed oil heated to nearly heat, the fire-king challenged any man living to drink a spoonful of clever performers drew quite fashionable audiences for a long time, and No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a enable the fireman to take into his hand burning or red-hot bodies. The last act in this extraordinary performance is the swallowing of a I have seen one of these performers on the street, in London, swallow a water worked those houses; but his performance met with little The feats which I saw him perform, a few days ago, were the following: performances, for eight or ten years; men of ordinary strength found id: 42723 author: Houdini, Harry title: The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin date: words: 55254 sentences: 2766 pages: flesch: 68 cache: ./cache/42723.txt txt: ./txt/42723.txt summary: Robert-Houdin''s explanation of tricks performed by other magicians and Robert-Houdin''s claims to the invention of automata and second-sight. [Illustration: Programme for the opening of Robert-Houdin''s theatre in [Illustration: Writing and drawing figure claimed by Robert-Houdin as the writing and drawing figure claimed by Robert-Houdin, he brought to The writing and drawing figure claimed by Robert-Houdin as his original Concerning this trick, which Robert-Houdin claims as his invention, he Robert-Houdin worked The Mystic Bell trick in connection with The Clock. England by the time Robert-Houdin appeared in London in 1848. "Inexhaustible Bottle Trick" was used by Anderson before Robert-Houdin invented this trick arose between Robert-Houdin and Henri Robin, who Robin presented all the tricks and automata that Robert-Houdin claimed Robert-Houdin presented the trick for the first time at his own While Robert-Houdin, in his "Memoirs," claims to have invented the trick Robert-Houdin appeared in London for the last time in 1853, but in 1865 id: 12343 author: Rid, Samuel title: The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine Wherein is Deciphered All the Conueyances of Legerdemaine and Iugling, How They Are Effected, and Wherin They Chiefly Consist; Cautions to Beware of Cheating at Cardes and Dice, the Detection of the Beggerly Art of Alcumistry, and the Foppery of Foolish Cousoning Charmes, All Tending to Mirth and Recreation, Especially for Those That Desire to Haue the Insight and Priuate Practise Thereof date: words: 14835 sentences: 623 pages: flesch: 78 cache: ./cache/12343.txt txt: ./txt/12343.txt summary: good speede, I know I haue runne thorow the hands of many, censured of palme of your hand, and so by vse, you shall not only seeme to put any candlesticks &c, then first seeme to put one ball into your left hand, and seeme to put the ball which is thought to be in your left hand with your left hand you leaue behinde you a great ball, or any other charmes seeme to conuey the same ball from vnder the same box or hand into your lap, it will seeme strange, for when you open your left one testor into your left hand, with words you shall make it seeme when you open your said left hand, there shall be nothing seene: and alwaies see what Cardes hee hath in his hand, So that a few ensamples The other vse of Cardes is to shew feates of Legerdemaine. id: 50903 author: Sachs, Edwin Thomas title: Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs & Others date: words: 143331 sentences: 6704 pages: flesch: 76 cache: ./cache/50903.txt txt: ./txt/50903.txt summary: placed the marked coin in the left hand, but in reality palm it. to perform this trick with a coin previously sewn in a handkerchief, right hand place the hat into the left one, the thumb on the brim, the (show left hand, at same time allowing coin to fall back in the right, CARD--THE LADY''S OWN TRICK--A RAPID CHANGE PASS--METHODS to look at the top card on the pack held in your left hand, and to the performer pretends to place each card, as chosen, upon a table, the box is wide open, and in the right-hand half is placed the card, cards require considerable sleight of hand in their performance; and CARD IN COURSE OF PERFORMING--PASSING HANDKERCHIEF OVER performer has balled up under the fingers of the hand holding the left the performer''s hand, three of his own having been placed in the id: 36659 author: Stanyon, Ellis title: Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. date: words: 46472 sentences: 2558 pages: flesch: 77 cache: ./cache/36659.txt txt: ./txt/36659.txt summary: the right hand and actually place it in the left several times; then paper, then take it from the left hand to the right, letting the coin left hand is now closed and the piece apparently passed from the right coin is placed in the performer''s right vest pocket, and is obtained by trick you place the left hand (holding the hooked coin) behind the body takes the red handkerchief in his right hand, passing the ball into the 1. Having obtained the ball from the back of the right hand, place it [Illustration: Fig. 25.--Ball in Position on Right Hand] 2. Close the right hand and place the ball on the top, (Fig. 25). Place the palm of the right hand (containing the ball) on appear to place the ball in the left hand, really opening the case to A duplicate of this small ball should be placed in the right hand id: 34375 author: Unknown title: Hocus Pocus Junior: The Anatomie of Legerdemain Or, the art of jugling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly, so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practise. date: words: 15216 sentences: 636 pages: flesch: 82 cache: ./cache/34375.txt txt: ./txt/34375.txt summary: draw his cups and hold them all three in his right hand also, saying, ball in your right hand under the Cup noted B. then clap your left hand unto your mouth, seeme to suppe the ball out of downe the cup, convey the ball that is in your right hand under it, and cup noted _A_ convey the ball that you retained in your hand under it. Then with your right hand take up the second ball, and seeme to put it Then with your right hand take up the second ball, and seeme to put it holding the ball betweene your two middle fingers of your right hand, TAke a ball and lay it on the Table, and holding a knife in one hand by then seeme to put the Ball into your left hand, but let it flip into suddenly drawing your right hand thorow your left, you shall seeme to id: 32492 author: Unknown title: Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works. date: words: 78643 sentences: 4151 pages: flesch: 80 cache: ./cache/32492.txt txt: ./txt/32492.txt summary: fill the glass, and, laying a piece of paper or thin card over the drawing away the paper, you leave the water in the glass, with its water, dry it at a moderate heat, placing it on paper capable of on the inside of this box, place a piece of looking-glass that shall fixed at the bottom of the box, place a magnetic bar, two inches long, Procure some small glass bubbles, having a neck about an inch long, _To tell the Number of Points on Three Cards, placed under Three their faces upwards; place the second person''s cards over the first, Let the person who has drawn the two cards deduct the number of each card, three-quarters of an inch long, may appear like a common-sized After the like manner let five persons draw the same card. 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