Shaxon, Alan: Practical Sorcery ©1976 Goodliffe Publication, London Hardcover, w/dj, 64 pages

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Comments: Routines Magic for The Cabaret Artist, the Mentalist, The Children's Entertainer

Contents (from book, updated with details Jun 2024):

i Foreword (Michael Bailey)
ii Introduction Make It Magical

1 Chapter 1 Getting Started
2 20th Century Cane and Silks: as an opener
4 Tearing Up the News: flash restoration
7 The Nudist Brainwave Deck

9 Chapter 2 Card Magic
10 Professional Cards to Pocket
12 The Invisible Card and Envelopes: comedy
15 A Perfect Jumbo Card Change: in a window envelope
16 My Favorite Card Trick: matching a selection with a card to wallet climax

19 Chapter 3 Mainly Mental
20 Television Mindreading: quick book test with a TV magazine
21 The Jubilee Medallion: number chosen by audience matches that on a medal
23 Twisted Psychometry: wrong cards on a display board are made right
26 The Great Directory Test: book test with a phone book

29 Chapter 4 A Mixture of Magic
30 Sucker Serviettes: a sucker torn and restored napkin routine
32 Smoking a Tin: value of a date on a coin becomes written in soot
34 Balloon to Rabbit: apparatus effect

37 Chapter 5 Finishing Strongly
38 Final Epic: no force version of Mental Epic
40 Climax Newspaper Test: chosen torn article matches prediction, with a newspaper restoration
43 Cabaret Rabbit Vanish: another apparatus effect

47 Chapter 6 Childrens Hour
49 The Magical Television Set: a roll-on cabinet for performing a children's show
53 List of Effects: patter for the effects as listed below are provided, but not the details of how they work
53 Introduction
53 The Aerial: silk frame and silk vanisher
54 The TV Times: used a TV and Radio Times Pop Up book and wristwatch gag
55 Tom & Jerry: version of Culpin's M Magic Mouse
55 Commercial Break: Soft Soap type effect
55 Egg Bag
57 Commercial Time Again: Barry Gordan's Elusive Rabbits
57 The Inevitable Western: full routine with dressing up the children
59 The Funnel and Foo Can
60 The Giveaway Show: a Just Chance type routine
60 Toto the Clown: production
61 Torn and Restored Serviette: as explained in this book
61 Radio to Rabbit: production box

63 In Conclusion