Cremer, W.H. (ed): Hanky Panky, A Book of Conjuring Tricks ©1877(circa) John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly Hardcover, 330 pages (plus ads)

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Contents (from book, updated Mar 2022)

13 Chapter I Simple Tricks
13 Fly Away, Jack!: papers on fingertips vanish and reappear to a poem
14 Dance, Boatman, Dance! (Bobine von Rhumkorff):  a finger poem
15 Buy a Bird: finger trick
15 Little Watchman: another finger play
16 To Add Five to Six and Yet Make But Nine: puzzle
16 To Carry Hot Coals In the Hand

18 Chapter II Simple Tricks With Coins
18 The Coin Trick From an Hibernian Point of View (Signor Blitz): story of the magician outwitted
20 The New Trick of Melting Money: coin vanishes when dropped in a glass of water
22 To Reduce a Shlling to a Sixpence: using a paper fold
23 The Uncrushable Flower (Charles Mathews): flower crushed without damage
25 The Flying Cotton Reel: coin in ball of cotton cord
26 The Obedient Sixpence: challenge
27 The Invisible Transit: coin to fruit, with a gimmicked vase and drawer box
28 The Die and Dove Trick: a giant die vanishes from a hat and is replaced by a bird
30 The Coin Wand: described
31 The Garland of Roses: coins and cards appear in a circle of flowers
32 The Bewitched Picture-Frame: a broken plate, ribbon, watches, etc. are shot at a frame with the plate restored minus one piece
34 The Gueridon and Golden Rain: coins vanish from a table, and invisibly pass through a hat back to the table

36 Chapter III Simple Tricks With Ropes and String
36 The Skipping Rope Trick (Hamilton): rope escape
37 To Restore a Cut String (Decremp): cut and restored
38 To Cut the Braid of a Buttonhole Without Leaving a Mark: a string appears to penetrate a buttonhole
39 The Demon Cord: cord changes color as it passes through a tube
40 To Tie a Knot on One Wrist Without the Touch of the Other Hand
41 To Cut Your Nose Off With a String: string appears to go through the nose
42 The Marvellous Release (M. Cleverman): stage escape
43 The Magic Untying: knot untied
46 Robert Houdin's Famous Rabbit Trick: production
47 The Magic Picture Frame and Vanishing Playing Cards: selected card appears and vanishes in a frame
49 The Magic Flower, Appearing and Blooming at Command (Robert Houdin, Cremer)

51 Chapter IV Simple Tricks With Handkerchiefs
51 The Melting Egg and the Bewitched Handkerchief: egg and handkerchief transposition in a glass
53 To Undo a Knotted Handkerchief by a Shake: false knot
54 The Handkerchief and Egg Trick: an egg vanishes from a handkerchief to be found elsewhere

56 Chapter V Simple Tricks With Rings
57 The Penetrative Ring: a borrowed ring penetrates an inverted cup, with variations
59 The Ring and Glove Pillar (La Colonne au Gant): apparatus effect where rings and a glove are shot at a pedestal and appear there

61 Chapter VI Simple Tricks With Knives
61 The Obedient Knife: various methods to make a knife jump or fall from a cup

66 Chapter VII Simple Tricks Fortune-Telling Tricks
66 Catches and Quibbles: ten riddles
69 Address On a Letter: letter puzzle
69 Algebraic Squaring of the Circle
69 A Bunch of Anagrams
70 The Grammatical Word: word puzzle
70 Hanky Panky to His Nieces With a Set of Chessman: poem
71 Comic Fortune Telling: cartoon
71 The Alphabetical Fortune Teller: The Moslem Zairgeh table
73 A Chinese Puzzle: dividing an inheritance
74 To Guess the Points Thrown With Dice: prediction
71 CIVIL: a Roman numeral joke
75 Arithmetical Fortune Telling: some date coincidences

76 Chapter VIII Simple Tricks With Boxes
76 The Magic Table and Sealed Cabinet: a wine soaked borrowed handkerchief & ring are shot into a nest of boxes
77 The 100 Rings of Smoke: a box made from playing cards used to create smoke rings
78 To Introduce Cigar Smoke Into an Air-tight Vase: chemical magic

80 Chapter IX Simple Tricks With Hats
80 The Magician's Birdcage: seemingly dead birds produced are then made alive
82 The Garden Hat, or Flowers Growing Visibly in a Hat: mechanical apparatus briefly described
84 To Run the Finger Through a Hat and Yet Return it Intact: borrowed hat

86 Chapter X Tricks In Drawing, Writing, Painting, &c.
86 To Take a Portrait in Three Minutes: a drawing appears instantly
87 A Rembrandt Etching in Five Minutes: a chemical version
87 The One Eared Hares: comedy sketch
88 The Shade of Napoleon Visiting His Tomb
89 Doing a Goose in the Turn of a Hand: comedy drawing
89 Vapourgraphic Pictures: etching on glass with hydrofluoric acid
90 Changeable Pictures: picture changes when held to the light
90 Magic Drawings: making a copy machine
90 Transparencies: painting on a wax coated linen
91 Moving Transparencies: a show in a cylinder
91 Making a Figure Without Removing the Hand
91 To Write on Wood: using resin
92 The Pig's Eye Game: a drawing game
92 Everlasting Writing on Glass
92 Moss Pictures: using real moss
92 The Punctuation Puzzle: riddle
93 Oil Picture: dropping oil or fat onto water

94 Chapter XI Amusing Tricks With Various Articles
94 To Divide a Horseshoe into Seven Pieces by Two Cuts
94 To Make an Anti-Macassar of a Sheet Of Paper: paper tearing
96 Sympathetic Currents of Divination: card, dominoes, and flower prediction
98 The Turning Shears: stunt
98 The Simulacrum: a lock is opened mysteriously
100 Primitive Wolf Trap: described
101 The Celebrated Honey-Bee Trick: a science fact
101 To Protect a House From Rats and Mice: using a China cat
102 To Show the Future in a Pail of Water: gag
102 The Intelligent Parrot: a mechanical talking parrot with an accomplice
102 Cloves: more science facts
103 Dandelion Ring Chains: how to make
103 Immortelles: coloring and preserving flowers
104 The Political Teetotum: a political dice game
105 Orthographical Dice: game with alphabetical dice
105 The Hexagon: Puzzle
106 The Magic Octagon: another puzzle
107 The Parallelogram: puzzle
107 Mock Laces: simple to make embroidery
107 To Cut Out a Cross: paper cut
108 The Magician's Spell: letter pattern
108 Cherry-Stone Baskets: making a tiny basket from a cherry stone
109 Hanky Panky Burglar Alarm: using fulminating powder
109 Mock Turtle: a paper turtle walks about by aid of a fly
110 Mystic Changes in Costume
111 The Animated Crystal: making a crystal of alum, and spinning it on a wet surface
111 The Spineless Giantess: child's costume to make them tall
112 To Colour Agates: chemical solutions
113 Card Castle: how to build

116 Chapter XII Interludes, Puzzles, &c.
116 Puzzles: use hard wood about 1/8" thick, or cardboard
116 To Form a Square: puzzle
117 A Square of Four Pieces
118 The Puzzle of Five Pieces
118 Another of Triangles
118 Another
119 A Square of Seventeen Squares
120 Another of Four Triangles and a Square
120 Of Four Squares and Eight Triangles
121 Of Nine Pieces
121 Of Ten Pieces
122 Of Twenty Triangles
122 Of Eleven Pieces
123 The Oval Puzzle
124 Checker Puzzle
125 The Undetachable Cylinder: clever puzzle to remove the button
126 The Triumphant Column: building blocks
127 A Pretty Trick in Balancing: physical stunt
127 The Angular Puzzle: building a puzzle box
129 The Posts and Paddock Puzzles: poem puzzle
129 The Landlord Tricked: math puzzle
130 The Divided Orchards: puzzle
131 The Oblong Puzzle: reform a card cut into pieces
132 The One Quarterless Square
132 Counter Puzzle: game

133 Chapter XIII Tricks In the Water
133 The Fane of Aquarius: little figures rise and fall in glass tubes
134 Water Rising Above Its Level: experiment
135 Water in Perpetual Motion: glass tubing experiment
136 To Place Twenty Shillings in a Wine Glass: filled with water
137 The Hydraulic Dancer: small figure dances on the water

139 Chapter XIV Tricks in Acoustics
139 Hints for Public Speakers: room acoustics
139 The Meridian Alarum: using a burning glass
140 Musical Water: streams of water through holes in a brass plate
140 The Aeolian Whistle: idea for attaching to a kite
140 Simple Aeolian Harp: for a window
141 To Play Two Whistles at Once
141 Echoes: how they work
143 Whispering Galleries: an echo room
143 The Intelligent Echo: more experiments with echoes
144 To Shiver Glasses by Singing: tips
144 The Wooden Harmonicon: making the instrument
144 The Stone Harmonicon: another version
145 The Lyre With a Good Memory: a harp seems to play softly on its own
146 The Tartini Fiddle Trick: experiment in octaves
146 The Demo Violin: with two violins
147 Practical Jokes in the Orchestra: a few ideas
147 Theatrical Thunder: two ways to produce the sound
148 To Imitate the Crash of a Thunderbolt Striking: apparatus described
149 The Crash Bag: illusion of a broken window
150 To Imitate Rain and Hail: apparatus described

152 Chapter XV Tricks With Wind and Air
152 Inflammable Air: with ether
152 Curious Vivification: figures rise in tubes
153 Riddle
153 Fiery Shower: with mercury
154 The Coin and Wine-Glass Puzzle: removing a smaller coin blocked by a larger in a cone shaped glass
154 The Weather Prophets: making a weather detector
155 The Dancer on an Invisible Mountain: making a floating figure

156 Chapter XVI Electrical Tricks
156 The Continuous Chime: an electrical chime with a ball
157 Simple Electroscope: a feather whirls around
157 The Obedient Brownie: stunt with a penny & electro-magnet
158 The Feather Pendulum
159 The Magnetic Fox-Hunt: small figures on a desktop run about by magnetic clockwork under the table
159 The Spirit Drum: beats using electric magnets

160 Chapter XVII Tricks With Fire and Heat
161 Statement of Caution
161 The Fountain of Fire: chemical fire
162 Light on the Water: using phosphoric ether
162 Spontaneous Combustion: two versions
163 The Miniature Mount Vesuvius: chemical volcano
165 A Fire of Tin: using nitrate of copper
165 The Diving Light: candle burns under water
166 To Decorate Metal: with a chemical solution
166 Fire From Two Cold Liquids
166 A Great Flame
166 Fire by Percussion: igniting tinder in a cylinder
167 The Dancing Flame: with a pinhole burner
168 Fire From Wood: dry rattan
168 Harmless Explosion: chemical mixture
168 Gunpowder Ignited Without Explosion
169 Salamander Paper: paper that doesn't burn
169 Fire-Proofing Oneself: not recommended
170 Different Temperature of Wter in the Same Vessel: experiment
171 The Magic Fluid: liquid flows between two tubes, using hidden, heated sand
172 Blue to White: liquid color change
173 Heat in Power: boiling water by friction
173 Green to Black: with tea
173 Colours Vanishing and Reappearing
173 Red to Purple, Green and Crimson: starting with cabbage
174 Enchanted Tapers: candles produced and magically lit
175 The Inextinguishable Candle
175 The Frozen Candle: iced candle still burns
175 Black More Luminous Than White: encaustic tile
175 Invisible Combustion: with ether
176 Dazzling Light: several versions
176 Walking on Burning Coals: ideas
177 The Divining Lights: various blazing chemical experiments
178 The Sympathetic Lamp: mysteriously blowing out a lamp
178 Proof That Flame is Hollow: experiment
178 Magic Lamp: more experiments
180 To Burn the Poker in the Candle
180 Fire for Amateur Theatricals
180 A Lamp Without Flame
181 Rays of the Sun: paper burns but snow doesn't melt
181 Common Gas: illuminating gas
182 The Fairy Iris: chemical mixture
183 The Cold Liquid Becoming Solid Under Heat
183 Invisible Gases Make a Liquid: chemical combination
183 Gases Make a Liquid: Oxygen and Hydrogen
183 Chemical Curiosity: with crystals

185 Chapter XVIII Optical Tricks
185 The Illusion of Subtraction: experiment in how bifocal vision works
186 Variation: using the thumbs
186 Coloured Glasses in Fogs: colored glass reducing the effect of fog
186 Japanese Mystic Mirrors: clever glass
187 Transfiguration Pictures: making a 3d picture
188 - Subjects: two examples
188 The Eidotrope: an optical illusion device
189 Writing on the Wall: an illusion
189 The Theatre With the Curtain Down and Up: miniature theatre described
189 The Magic Inversion: pin-hole magnifier
190 The Pretended Endless Arcade: optical illusion described
191 The Witches Dance: shadow illusion against a transparent screen
192 Penetrative Sight: optical illusion of looking through a book
193 The Blind Spot in the Eye: experiment
193 The Bewitched Playing Card: using a odd shaped glass
194 The Magic Cube-Box: mirror that shows the person next to you
195 Yellow and Blue Do Not Make Green: light experiment
197 The Magic Temple: a mirror box for small figures
199 Thumatrope, or Wonder Turner: spun disk shows a man on a horse illusion
199 The Arcade of Verdure: making a miniature endless vista
200 The Perspective Glass: visual experiment
201 The Enchanted Looking Glass: comedy mirror
202 The Ocular and Olfactory Harpsichord (Pere Castel, Abbe Poncell): a possible relation between perfumes, colours, and flavours
203 Shadows on the Wall: using pin pricked photos
203 Irregular Profiles Forming Symmetrical Shadows
204 Chinese Shadows: wall shadow shows
205 Anamorphoses, or Distorted Figures: how to copy a drawing to make a humorous version
207 Optical Fireworks: ideas for painting, cutting drawings
210 The Sultan's Summer Palace Illuminated: artificial lighting in a picture
210 The Penetrative Eyeglass: device lets you apparently look through objects
211 The Polemoscope: other ideas
212 The Head Decapitated and Floating in the Air Three Yards From the Body: briefly described
213 The Illuminated Head of Isis: a mask mysteriously illuminates
214 A Night Watch Lamp: apparatus allows a watch to be clearly seen at night
214 Double-Coloured Reflection: hole in glass reflects colors
215 The Phantom Flower: image of a flower appears in a glass
217 The Magic Cameras (Kruss): allows opaque objects to be viewed magnified
219 The Image Like Life: using a concave mirror
219 The Nostradamus Trick: story of a mirror illusion
220 Proteus - The Incredible Transformation (Robertson): optical illusion of performer transforming to other figures
222 The Enchanted Telescope: variation
222 The Head of John the Baptist: another concave mirror illusion
222 The Dagger of Macbeth: arm with dagger appears
223 The Ghost Illusion: using the Magic Lantern, and other approaches
225 The Saint's Head in a Glory: light moves around a painting

227 Chapter XIX Complicated Tricks In Mechanical Magic
227 Puppets, Marionettes, Fantoccini, &c, &c.
227 - The Potato Mannikin: an impromptu doll
228 - A Masquerade Trick: stunt with a human sized puppet
230 - The Comic Anatomist and Dancing Bogie: a skeleton drawn comes alive
232 The Gyroscope: described
233 Experiment With the Gyroscope
235 The Highflyer: making a spinning flying toy
236 The Mechanical Aerostat: another flying toy
235 Artificial Snakes: from wood, and wiggle when moved
238 The Piping Bullfinch: working of a toy singing bird
238 The Wonderful Well: seeds poured into a well can be retrieved in selected order
240 The Twin Singing Birds: mechanical birds appear to jump about and sing
241 The Automation Artist and Writer (Robert Houdin): a puppet draws requested answers, figures, etc.
244 The Automation Performer on the Horizonal Bar: another automation
246 The Automation Tumbler: a tumbling toy
249 The Automation Flute-Player (Vaucanson): description of how the automation plays the flute
250 The Automation Drummer: described

251 Chapter XX Tricks With Cards, Dice, Dominoes, &c.
252 The Garcia Slip, or Tour D'Hombourg: a card force
252 To Tell a Card Thought Of: by laying the cards in piles
253 To Guess the Spots on a Card
254 To Tell Two Cards Out of Twenty: placed on the table in four rows
254 To Bring All the Cards of te Same Kind Together: using a stacked deck
255 The Four Indivisible Kings: four Kings distributed in the deck appear at the top
256 To Guess Cards Selected by Several Persons
256 A New Three Card Trick: determine which spectator chose which card using counters
257 To Tell the Spots on All the Bottom Cards of Several Heaps
259 To Name All the Cards of a Pack: with a stacked deck
260 Even or Odd: trick using the deck
260 To Tell te Spots on Selected Cards: another
261 To Tell a Chosen Card of Four
262 Topsy Turvy: selected card flies face up as deck is dropped
262 The Conjurer's Card Castle: a deck of cards is pushed through a doll house, and the two selections appear in the windows
263 Odd of Even: math trick
263 Mysterious Trick of Thirty Six Cards, Telling the Card You Look At Without Seeing the Pack: using a stacked deck
264 The Four Associates: magician determines which one of four cards the spectator selected
266 How to Change Cards to Pictures: how to gimmick the deck
266 Magic Disappearance: a card change
268 Sixteen Cards Being in Two Rows, to Find That Which a Person Has Thought Of
269 A Certain Number of Cards Being Shown to a Person, to Guess That Which He Has Thought Of: mathematical
269 The Restorative Card: cut up threat is restored in a rolled up card
270 The Four Confederate Cards: same as the Four Associates
270 The Magic Pocket-Book: making a Himber-style wallet
272 To Guess Several Drawn Cards: three spectators choose the same card
272 The Butcher's Grip, or Hold It Fast: selected card changes to another
274 To Prevent Any One Drawing a Card Which You Hold Up Plainly Before Him
274 The Recoverable Card: simple burnt and restored card
275 A Pack of Cards Kept Together in the Air: shuffled deck stays together when thrown until it hits
276 To Change a Card by word of Command
276 To Place the Four Knaves Upon One Another So That Only the Upper Half of Each Card is Visible
277 To Change Five Kings Into Five Queens: using gimmicked cards
278 The Shuffled Ten: counting to the selected card
278 The Mystic Change: four indifferent cards transpose with one of the four Kings
279 To Separate a Chosen Card From the Pack at a Blow
279 Knocking a Card Out of the Pack
280 To Name Every Card in a Pack Successively Turned Up By a Second Party: stacked deck
281 To Win Every Trick at Whist: using the stacked deck
282 To Tell What Card a Person Thinks Upon: not one hundred percent
282 How To Deliver Out of Four Aces, and Convert Them to Four Knaves: using 8 cards
283 To Tell a Selected Card, Without Seeing It Till You Find It In The Pack
284 To Name the Number of Cards That a Person Shall Take Out of the Pack: stacked piquet pack
284 The Card in the Mirror: using a special apparatus and an assistant, and a version without the assistant
286 The Divining Spy Glass: using a deck of 27 cards
287 The Cards In The Opera-Gass: spectator's view their two selected cards in a telescope
288 To Tell the Cards by Their Weight: using a prepared pack
290 To Discover a Selected Card by a Throw of a Die: using a special deck
291 To Place Nine Cards in Ten Rows of Three Each: puzzle
291 To Name Several Chosen Cards Out of a Pack Divided Into Two Heaps
291 To Make Two Persons Draw the Same Card Out of Two Packs: with a confederate
292 To Produce a Card Without Seeing the Pack: using a cornered deck
292 How to Keep a Roadside Inn: a story card trick
293 To Tell Four Cards in a Looking-Glass: with a special deck
294 The Century of Cards: puzzle
295 The Nine Digits: puzzle
295 To Divide the Red Cards From te Back by a Single Cut of the Pack: using a shaved deck
296 The Card of One Colour Found in a Pack of the Other
296 To Impale a Card: card on the wall
297 Cards Told by Poetical Inspiration: using 16 cards in four rows, and a confederate
299 The Card Nailed to the Wall With a Pistol-Shot
300 The Cards in Tea-Caddies: two cards transpose while locked in separate tea-caddies
301 The Cards Named, Discovered With The Eyes Blinded: with a confederate
301 The Card Springing Up Into the Air, From the Pack, Without Being Touched
302 To Show a Card Chosen by the Audience in a Dark Room: with accomplice
303 The Double Confederates: uses to confederates, but they don't know about each other
304 Finale to a Card Trick: deck knocked out of the mouth leaves just the selection
305 Jack Tar's Prayer-Boo, or the Comprehensive Cards: story trick

308 Appendix

308 Gamblers' Tricks With Cards Exposed
308 Gamblers' Preparation or Doctoring of Cards
309 Reflectors
309 The Longs and Shorts
309 Sauter La Coupe, or Slipping the Cards
311 Convex and Concave Cards
312 Handing the Cards
312 Garretting
313 Walking the Pegs
313 The Bridge - or the Old Gentleman
313 kinning
314 Shuffling or Weaving
314 The Gradus, or Step
314 Slipping the Fives
315 Saddling the Cards
315 Dealing From the Bottom
316 Stealing Out Cards, and Palming
317 Cutting, Shuffling, Dealing, Stealing, &c.
317 Diamond Cut Diamond: a story
318 Gamblers' Means of Secret Communication

321 Roulette
321 Tricks an Roulette
323 English Roulette

326 Rouge-et-Noir