James, Wesley & Stephen Minch (editor): Enchantments - Magic for Cards and Hands
©2004 Hermetic Press
Hardcover, 481 pages
Wesley James Enchantments
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Wesley James: Enchantments

Comments: Illustrated by Tony Dunn. Pre-Illustrative Photography by Debbie Murray.

Contents (from book ToC):

xi Preface
xiii Introduction

5 Part One - Forgery, Packets & Principles

5 Section One: Forgery
5 Forgery

5 Section Two: Ace Effects
19 Trapped Ace Surprise
23 Catch-Ace-Trap-ee
28 April Fools Aces
31 - Ace And Three-Card Vanishes
34 - Ace And Four-Card Vanishes
38 Catalytic Progressive Aces

49 Section Three: Packet Effects
49 Below Zero Minus One
51 - The Spread Displacement
54 - The Marlo Flexible Count Grip
55 - The JEHHFOWJ Count
57 - Semaj-Novrec Masked Packet Reverse
58 - Snap Reverse
61 Turn Me Down Why Don’t You
67 The James Gang
69 - The Marlo-James Multiple Shift
77 Quick Three-Way My Way
82 - Small Packet One-Handed Top Spot Palm
84 New Faces Of 1234
85 - Spread ATFUS
89 Hyper-Warp

89 Section Four: Two Principles
101 The Sigma Principle
104 A Sleight Case Of Murder
113 Vanishing Eleven And Placement

121 Part Two

121 Section One: Palming
121 Palming…
125 Named Travelers
127 - Secretly Disordering The Deck
129 - WJ Bottom Palm
133 Holdout Holdup
139 - The Coughlin Palm Replacement
141 - The One-Handed Daley Switch
144 Chameleon Colors Revisited
146 - De-Flourished Ossip Slip Cut

153 Section Two: Lifts
153 Naturalness: The Double Lift—And More
158 WJ Two-Step Double Lift
161 The WJ Two-Step Double Lift Hit Variation
164 A Stuart Gordon Turnover Variation
167 The Unload Subtlety
170 My Ambitious Card Routine
173 - The Moveable Card Pass
177 - Coming Up In The World (A.K.A. The Load-Up Move)
181 - The WJ Side Steal
188 - The Simulated Shuffle—A Palm Cover
188 - The James Palm Transfer
188 - The Speed Load—A Wallet Loading Technique

193 Section Three: False Deals
193 Deals
195 Bottom Dealing
208 Follow That Card II
219 P.K.A. Cheating
223 Fair Risk - Spectator’S Open Prediction
228 Second Dealing
237 The Moon Is Made Of Blue Cheese
240 Sympathetic Blacks
244 - Marlo’s Future Reverse—Broken Form
245 - The Krenzel Square Reverse
249 Etude For Dealers
254 The Option Second Deal
257 - The Countervailing Motion Principle
259 Miscellaneous False Deals
263 A Hand Too Few
271 Theory Thirds
273 - Fourths Fifths Etc.
274 - The Undifferentiated Middle
276 - Adding Differentiation
277 Miscellaneous False Deals (Concluded)
281 Theoretical False Deals
281 Summary

285 Section Four: Shuffles
285 False Riffle Shuffles
288 The Zarrow Shuffle
290 - WJ On The Zarrow
294 - The Tabled Winnipeg Cut
297 I’ll Put Money On It
309 Color Triumphant
315 The Merlin Push-Through
322 The Strike Push-Through
327 The Crand-bler’s Prediction

327 Section Five: The Pass
335 The Pass
337 The Basic Position
340 The Edge Pass
343 The Squeeze Pass
345 The Pivot Side-Jiggle Pass
347 The Diagonal Pass
349 The Automatic Pass
351 The Anomalous Pass

357 Section Six: Toolbox
357 Low Lateral Palm
358 - The Position
359 - The Deal-Out Subtraction
361 - Low Lateral Control
364 - Low Lateral Conversions
367 - Add-Backs
367 -- Standard Add-Back
368 -- No Contact Add-Back
369 - Bottom Add-Backs
370 - Low Lateral Steals
373 - Low Lateral Switches
377 The Christ-Annemann Alignment Displacement Sequence
380 Four-As-Four - Hiding Two, Faf-Two - Counts
381 - The Faf-Two Count
382 - Splay Grip
384 West-Townsend-James (WTJ) Count
389 Turnantula
393 The Egress Vanish
398 A Refinement For The Bluff Shift
399 - The Bluff Shift As A Control
402 - The Bluff Shift As A Riffle Force

409 Part Three - Mental Effects & Gaffed Methods

409 Section One: Going Mental
409 Mental Magic
410 The Vibratory Prediction
413 - The Intention Force
415 - The Kick-Off Switch
418 Blushing Leaper
423 Brownian Movement (The Sequel)
425 - The Veeser Concept And Alignment Insurance
428 Ham And Ace Sandwich
434 Divine Miraskill
438 A Vision Or A Dream?

445 Section Two: Seriously Gaffed
445 Why Not?
446 Wishuffle
451 Birthday Aces
461 Watch The Wild Ace

473 Section Three: General Tips
473 The Hands
475 Breaking In The Cards
478 Routining

481 Closing Comment



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