More Magic of the Hands

More Magic of the Hands
Title More Magic of the Hands PDF eBook
Author Edward Victor
Publisher Wildside Press LLC
Pages 130
Release 2008-03-01
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN 1434465004

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Edward Victor -- famous for his slight-of-hand effects -- offers more of his innermost secrets and shows exactly how to perform some of his greatest magic effects. Includes: cards, tapes, coins, silks, dice, salt, cigars, gloves, thimbles, matchboxes, billiard balls, more!

The Magic of the Hands

The Magic of the Hands
Title The Magic of the Hands PDF eBook
Author Edward Victor
Publisher
Pages 117
Release 1940
Genre Magic tricks
ISBN

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Mind-Blowing Magic Tricks for Everyone

Mind-Blowing Magic Tricks for Everyone
Title Mind-Blowing Magic Tricks for Everyone PDF eBook
Author Oscar Owen
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 273
Release 2021-11-30
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN 1510765778

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"The ultimate guide to mastering the art of magic." —Business Insider "A must-have for any aspiring magician." —Mashable Learn to perform 50 unbelievable magic tricks that will impress and astonish any audience! Features QR codes with links to trick videos for easy learning and visual aid! This delightful book reveals some of magic's best-kept secrets, showing you step-by-step exactly how the tricks are done from multiple angles. Learn easy-yet-mystifying card tricks, awe-inspiring coin tricks, mentalism tricks for reading someone's mind, deceptive bets, and amazing visual tricks that you can do with everyday objects, including how to: Make a pen disappear Levitate a dollar Send a cup through a table Tear a napkin and restore it to its original state Put a need through a balloon without popping it Crack an apple open with your bare hands And more! In addition to these jaw-dropping tricks, this book provides readers with: QR Codes with trick videos for visual aid Practice and performance tips Jokes to use when performing Additional resources And more! Ultimately, by the end of this book not only will you know fifty mind-blowing magic tricks, but you will also know exactly how to perform them confidently. The book is the perfect gift for aspiring magicians or anyone who wants to impress their family and friends!

Further Magic of the Hands

Further Magic of the Hands
Title Further Magic of the Hands PDF eBook
Author Edward Victor
Publisher
Pages 138
Release 1946
Genre Magic tricks
ISBN

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Classic Card Tricks

Classic Card Tricks
Title Classic Card Tricks PDF eBook
Author Edward Victor
Publisher Courier Corporation
Pages 116
Release 2004-01-01
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN 9780486433554

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Simple, easy-to-follow instructions and 105 figure drawings show how to execute more than 35 amazing card tricks using such ordinary items as a handkerchief, notepaper, piece of string, candle, and a deck of cards. Beginners will soon be performing remarkable feats iincluding The Thirty Card Trick, A False Riffle Shuffle, and more.

More Magic

More Magic
Title More Magic PDF eBook
Author Hoffmann (Professor)
Publisher
Pages 488
Release 1890
Genre Magic tricks
ISBN

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The Psychology of Magic and the Magic of Psychology

The Psychology of Magic and the Magic of Psychology
Title The Psychology of Magic and the Magic of Psychology PDF eBook
Author Amir Raz
Publisher Frontiers Media SA
Pages 177
Release 2016-11-18
Genre
ISBN 2889450082

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Magicians have dazzled audiences for many centuries; however, few researchers have studied how, let alone why, most tricks work. The psychology of magic is a nascent field of research that examines the underlying mechanisms that conjurers use to achieve enchanting phenomena, including sensory illusions, misdirection of attention, and the appearance of mind-control and nuanced persuasion. Most studies to date have focused on either the psychological principles involved in watching and performing magic or “neuromagic” - the neural correlates of such phenomena. Whereas performers sometimes question the contributions that modern science may offer to the advancement of the magical arts, the history of magic reveals that scientific discovery often charts new territories for magicians. In this research topic we sketch out the symbiotic relationship between psychological science and the art of magic. On the one hand, magic can inform psychology, with particular benefits for the cognitive, social, developmental, and transcultural components of behavioural science. Magicians have a large and robust set of effects that most researchers rarely exploit. Incorporating these effects into existing experimental, even clinical, paradigms paves the road to innovative trajectories in the study of human behaviour. For example, magic provides an elegant way to study the behaviour of participants who may believe they had made choices that they actually did not make. Moreover, magic fosters a more ecological approach to experimentation whereby scientists can probe participants in more natural environments compared to the traditional lab-based settings. Examining how magicians consistently influence spectators, for example, can elucidate important aspects in the study of persuasion, trust, decision-making, and even processes spanning authorship and agency. Magic thus offers a largely underused armamentarium for the behavioural scientist and clinician. On the other hand, psychological science can advance the art of magic. The psychology of deception, a relatively understudied field, explores the intentional creation of false beliefs and how people often go wrong. Understanding how to methodically exploit the tenuous twilight zone of human vulnerabilities – perceptual, logical, emotional, and temporal – becomes all the more revealing when top-down influences, including expectation, symbolic thinking, and framing, join the fray. Over the years, science has permitted magicians to concoct increasingly effective routines and to elicit heightened feelings of wonder from audiences. Furthermore, on occasion science leads to the creation of novel effects, or the refinement of existing ones, based on systematic methods. For example, by simulating a specific card routine using a series of computer stimuli, researchers have decomposed the effect and reconstructed it into a more effective routine. Other magic effects depend on meaningful psychological knowledge, such as which type of information is difficult to retain or what changes capture attention. Behavioural scientists measure and study these factors. By combining analytical findings with performer intuitions, psychological science begets effective magic. Whereas science strives on parsimony and independent replication of results, magic thrives on reproducing the same effect with multiple methods to obscure parsimony and minimise detection. This Research Topic explores the seemingly orthogonal approaches of scientists and magicians by highlighting the crosstalk as well as rapprochement between psychological science and the art of deception.