item: #1 of 11
          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: None
       words: 14835
      flesch: 54
     summary: I will in briefe set you downe some pretty conclusions, and so I will proceede with other feates in other kindes. Many other pretty feates of this nature might be here sett downe, as to cut of ones head and to laye it in a platter, which Iuglers cal the decollation of _S. Iohn_
    keywords: art; ball; cardes; doe; feates; foure; good; hand; hath; haue; iugling; knife; mony; seeme; shew; table; testor; thing; vnder; vpon; vse; words
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        item: #2 of 11
          id: 27353
      author: Branson, L. H. (Lionel Hugh)
       title: Indian Conjuring
        date: None
       words: 14854
      flesch: 77
     summary: As his last trick was with water the Jadoo-wallah sensibly enough proceeds to show another with water, though an English conjuror would separate such tricks from an artistic point of view, thinking that a change of diet in magic is just as necessary as it is in a meal. Such tricks as described to me are usually the fruit of a vivid imagination, pure and simple.
    keywords: ball; basket; boy; conjuror; hand; illustration; indian; jadoo; performer; ring; rope; rope trick; stick; trick; wallah; water
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        item: #3 of 11
          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: None
       words: 6860
      flesch: 74
     summary: Meanwhile, lay down the plate and handkerchief on the table, at the same time palming small _fêke_ containing white silk handkerchief in left hand. The performer now introduces the handkerchief mill and removes the knives in order to show their sharpness, and the two handkerchiefs are placed in the empty compartment (the other division, it will be remembered, contains the strips of handkerchiefs); but on second thoughts the performer considers that it is unfair not to treat all the handkerchiefs alike, so he picks up the remaining two white handkerchiefs and the coloured one from the table and places them also in the mill.
    keywords: cards; egg; handkerchief; performer; post; table; white
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        item: #4 of 11
          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: None
       words: 78647
      flesch: 74
     summary: A beautiful method of expressing geometrical figures with the above powder, is to bend small glass tubes, of about the tenth part of an inch diameter, in the shape of the figure desired, and then to fill them with the phosphoric powder. An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building, from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction, straight or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent its striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.
    keywords: 8vo; air; box; card; cases; cloth; cut; diameter; distance; draw; end; fire; fix; glass; half; hand; hole; inches; iron; light; manner; middle; number; pack; paper; parts; person; piece; place; powder; rockets; round; second; sun; table; time; tube; vol; water; wheel; wood; works; | |
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        item: #5 of 11
          id: 32788
      author: Hercat
       title: More Conjuring: Simple Tricks for Social Gatherings
        date: None
       words: 20097
      flesch: 85
     summary: This movement is best executed by slightly pushing down the three cards with the index finger of left hand until a sufficient amount of projection is obtained for the fingers and thumb of right hand to grip. PRESENTATION.--Show pack held in left hand and call special attention to the two spot on the bottom of the pack, then lift off the five-spot card and pass it to a spectator with the remark that the centre spot is loose and can be transferred at will to any other card; while the card is being examined you secretly count off the three other prepared cards at the bottom of the pack and keep them separated from the rest with the index finger of left hand.
    keywords: card; coin; fig; hand; handkerchief; left; matches; number; pack; person; place; request; right; table; trick; | |
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        item: #6 of 11
          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: None
       words: 15216
      flesch: 67
     summary: [Illustration] then hold your said left hand from off you, and pronounce these words with a _Revoca stivoca_ [Illustration] Then with your right hand take up the first ball, and seeme to put it into your left hand, shutting your said left hand in due time, then as if you were at dice, cast your left hand at the cup D, and blow after it, saying, _vade pas_, and 'tis gone, then take up the cup noted A, and clap it upon the cup D, and in clapping it on, convey the ball you retained in your right hand upon the top of the cup D.
    keywords: ball; cup; downe; end; finger; hand; illustration; left; money; piece; pocket; right; seeme; table; time
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        item: #7 of 11
          id: 36513
      author: Ainslie, Arthur
       title: Water Wizardry: A collection of tricks in which water is the chief agent
        date: None
       words: 30247
      flesch: 80
     summary: The mere vanishing of water in this way is not a complete trick in itself; it should be combined with other tricks. Tricks by J. N. Maskelyne, Frank Kennard Trewey, Paul Valadon, Charles Bertram, H. de Manche, T. Nelson Downs, Mdlle.
    keywords: audience; bottle; bowl; card; conjurer; cover; glass; hand; handkerchief; left; little; paper; rice; right; table; trick; tube; water; way
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        item: #8 of 11
          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: None
       words: 46473
      flesch: 73
     summary: I will now describe a number of handkerchief tricks complete in themselves. The preceding list of coin tricks has been arranged in combination, the one to follow the other in a natural manner, for an entertainment, as actually presented to an audience.
    keywords: audience; ball; coin; effect; end; fig; glass; half; hand; handkerchief; hat; illustration; inches; left; manner; palm; paper; pass; performer; piece; place; pocket; position; right; stage; table; time; trick; tube; wand; water; white
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        item: #9 of 11
          id: 42723
      author: Houdini, Harry
       title: The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin
        date: None
       words: 55256
      flesch: 64
     summary: In the first place, Robert Houdin insinuates that when they played in opposition John Henry Anderson's répertoire was stale and uninteresting. [Illustration: Card trick as featured by Anderson in 1836-37.
    keywords: anderson; automata; automaton; book; bosco; bottle; chapter; claims; clock; collection; conjurer; conjuring; day; drawing; droz; edition; english; fact; fawkes; figure; hand; handkerchiefs; harry houdini; henry; history; houdin; houdini collection; illustration; jacquet; life; london; magic; magician; man; memoirs; new; original; page; paris; performance; performer; phillippe; pinchbeck; pinetti; place; programme; public; robert; sight; stage; suspension; theatre; time; tree; trick; work; world; writing; years
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        item: #10 of 11
          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: None
       words: 39904
      flesch: 65
     summary: The following, from Dr. Desaguliers' Experimental Philosophy, London, 1763, Vol. 1, page 289, contrasts feats of actual strength with the tricks of the old-time performers: Thomas Topham, born in London, and now about thirty-one years of age, five feet ten inches high, with muscles very hard and prominent, was brought up a carpenter, which trade he practiced till within these six or seven years that he has shewed feats of strength; but he is entirely ignorant of any art to make his strength appear more surprising; Nay, sometimes he does things which become more difficult by his disadvantageous situation; attempting and often doing, what he hears other strong men have done, without making use of the same advantages. Good fire to keep the gentry warm.
    keywords: act; art; body; burning; chabert; chapter; day; degrees; eating; end; fact; feats; feet; fire; following; good; hand; heat; iron; king; lead; life; london; man; manner; men; minutes; mouth; new; oil; oven; performance; performer; piece; place; public; red; snake; sothern; stone; strength; swallowing; sword; teeth; time; water; white; years
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        item: #11 of 11
          id: 50903
      author: Sachs, Edwin Thomas
       title: Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs & Others
        date: None
       words: 143332
      flesch: 72
     summary: The five methods described give the conjuror his choice according to his greater facility with the pass, the palm, or the change; and he will also find that they are capable of far wider application, in connection with other card tricks. Card tricks, more than anything else, demand sleight of hand pure and simple, and success with them can only be attained by assiduous practice.
    keywords: article; assistant; audience; ball; bottle; box; card; coin; company; conjuror; course; cover; effect; egg; end; fig; fingers; glass; half; hand; handkerchief; hat; hold; inside; left; means; method; open; pack; palm; paper; pass; performer; piece; place; position; right; ring; round; stage; table; thumb; time; trick; use; wand; way
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