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* '''The Cannibal Cards''' ([[Roy Walton]]): Roy Walton, ''[[The Devil's Playthings]]'' (1969, pp. 36-37).
 
* '''The Cannibal Cards''' ([[Roy Walton]]): Roy Walton, ''[[The Devil's Playthings]]'' (1969, pp. 36-37).
** Roy Walton, ''[[The Complete Walton, Vol. 1]]'' (1991, pp. 27-28).
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** Roy Walton, ''[[The Complete Walton, Vol. 1]]'' (1991, pp. 27-29).
  
 
* '''The Cannibal Cards''' ([[Matt Corin]]): ''[[Kabbala]]'', Vol. 1 No. 2 (October 1971, pp. 15-16).
 
* '''The Cannibal Cards''' ([[Matt Corin]]): ''[[Kabbala]]'', Vol. 1 No. 2 (October 1971, pp. 15-16).
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* '''Cannibal Land''' ([[Peter Duffie]]): ''[[Pabular]]'', Vol. 3 No. 11 (July 1977, pp. 432-433).
 
* '''Cannibal Land''' ([[Peter Duffie]]): ''[[Pabular]]'', Vol. 3 No. 11 (July 1977, pp. 432-433).
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* '''Ackerman's Face Lift''' ([[Allan Ackerman]]): [[Paul Harris]], ''[[Close-up Entertainer]]'' (1979, pp. 125-133).
  
 
* '''Fit for a King''' ([[Robert Walker]]): Robert Walker, ''[[Tricks From the Tree]]'' (1980, pp. 9-15).
 
* '''Fit for a King''' ([[Robert Walker]]): Robert Walker, ''[[Tricks From the Tree]]'' (1980, pp. 9-15).
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* '''On the Munch, or Eating Out''' ([[Gene Maze]]): [[Richard Kaufman]], ''[[The Gene Maze Card Book]]'' (1980, pp. 60-62).
 
* '''On the Munch, or Eating Out''' ([[Gene Maze]]): [[Richard Kaufman]], ''[[The Gene Maze Card Book]]'' (1980, pp. 60-62).
  
* '''Pieces of Ate''' ([[Ed Hollins]]): Ed Hollins, ''Card Magic Selfspoken'' (1980, pp. 32-40).
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* '''Pieces of Ate''' ([[E. T. Hollins]]): E. T. Hollins, ''Cardmagic Selfspoken'' (1980, pp. 32-40).
  
 
* '''Missionaries' Revenge''' ([[John Mendoza]]): John Mendoza, ''[[John: Verse Two]]'' (1980, pp. 4-14).
 
* '''Missionaries' Revenge''' ([[John Mendoza]]): John Mendoza, ''[[John: Verse Two]]'' (1980, pp. 4-14).
  
* '''''The Complete Walt Lees Cannibal Card Act''''', [[Walt Lees]], 1981.
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* '''Direct Cannibal Surprise''' ([[Ed Marlo]]): ''[[The New Tops]]'', Vol. 21 No. 6 (June 1981, pp. 6-10).
  
* '''A Slew of Cannibal Moves''' ([[Dan MacMillan]]): [[Ken Simmons]], ''[[Close Up With Cards]] (1981, pp. 54-64).
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* '''''The Complete Walt Lees Cannibal Act''''', [[Walt Lees]], 1981.
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* '''A Slew of Cannibal Moves''' ([[Dan MacMillan]]): [[Ken Simmons]], ''[[Close-up With Cards]] (1981, pp. 54-64).
  
 
* '''Cannibals, French Style''' ([[Jean-Jacques Sanvert]]): [[Jon Racherbaumer]], ''[[The Lost Pages of Kabbala]]'' (1981, pp. 47-49).
 
* '''Cannibals, French Style''' ([[Jean-Jacques Sanvert]]): [[Jon Racherbaumer]], ''[[The Lost Pages of Kabbala]]'' (1981, pp. 47-49).
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* '''Snappy Cannibal''' ([[Ben Harris]]): ''[[Magic Manuscript]]'', Vol. 4 No. 2 (August-September 1982, pp. 20-21).
 
* '''Snappy Cannibal''' ([[Ben Harris]]): ''[[Magic Manuscript]]'', Vol. 4 No. 2 (August-September 1982, pp. 20-21).
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** Ben Harris, ''[[Out of His Mind]]'' (1985, pp. 107-108).
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** Ben Harris, ''[[Singapore Lecture Notes]]'' (1985, p. 8).
  
 
* '''Vitamin Cannibals''' ([[Ed Marlo]]): ''Magic Manuscript'', Vol. 4 No. 2 (August-September 1982, pp. 21-23).
 
* '''Vitamin Cannibals''' ([[Ed Marlo]]): ''Magic Manuscript'', Vol. 4 No. 2 (August-September 1982, pp. 21-23).
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* '''Cardniverous Queens''' ([[Terry LaGerould]]): [[Bruce Florek]], ''[[Tahoe File]]'' (1982).
  
 
* '''Flesh Eaters''' ([[David Britland]]): David Britland, ''[[Cardopolis]]'' (1983, pp. 15-18).
 
* '''Flesh Eaters''' ([[David Britland]]): David Britland, ''[[Cardopolis]]'' (1983, pp. 15-18).
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* '''Cannibal Cards''' ([[Dan Fleshman]]): Dan Fleshman, ''Close Up With Dan Fleshman'' (1984, p. 10).
 
* '''Cannibal Cards''' ([[Dan Fleshman]]): Dan Fleshman, ''Close Up With Dan Fleshman'' (1984, p. 10).
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* '''The Missionary Who Came as Dinner''' ([[Philip Willmarth]]): [[William Miesel]], ed., ''Seconds from the Forkers'' (1984, pp. 71-72).
  
 
* '''Cannibal Cards, et al''' ([[John Murray]]): John Murray, ''[[Inside]]'' (1984, pp. 17-30).
 
* '''Cannibal Cards, et al''' ([[John Murray]]): John Murray, ''[[Inside]]'' (1984, pp. 17-30).
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* '''The Phantom Cannibal''' ([[J. K. Hartman]]): Justin Branch, ''Progressive Card Magic'' (1985, p. 35).
 
* '''The Phantom Cannibal''' ([[J. K. Hartman]]): Justin Branch, ''Progressive Card Magic'' (1985, p. 35).
 
* '''Snappy Cannibal''' ([[Ben Harris]]): Ben Harris, ''[[Singapore Lecture Notes]]'' (1985, p. 8).
 
  
 
* '''The Carnivor-ace Aces''' ([[Justin Higham]]): Justin Higham, ''All Hands on Deck!'' (1985).<ref>http://www.angelfire.com/blog/card-magic/ahod.html</ref>
 
* '''The Carnivor-ace Aces''' ([[Justin Higham]]): Justin Higham, ''All Hands on Deck!'' (1985).<ref>http://www.angelfire.com/blog/card-magic/ahod.html</ref>
  
 
* '''The Overstuffed Cannibals''' ([[Chris Kenner]]): [[John Mendoza]], ''[[The Right Stuff]]'' (1985, pp. 6-8).
 
* '''The Overstuffed Cannibals''' ([[Chris Kenner]]): [[John Mendoza]], ''[[The Right Stuff]]'' (1985, pp. 6-8).
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* '''Chinese Tuckaway''' ([[Stephen Tucker]]): Stephen Tucker, ''[[Cardiac Stimulation]]'' (1985, pp. 17-19).
  
 
* '''The Sick Cannibals''' ([[Ed Marlo]]): Ed Marlo, ''[[Thirty Five Years Later]]'' (1986, pp. 26-29).
 
* '''The Sick Cannibals''' ([[Ed Marlo]]): Ed Marlo, ''[[Thirty Five Years Later]]'' (1986, pp. 26-29).

Revision as of 21:52, 13 January 2015

Cannibal Cards is a classic plot in card magic developed by Lin Searles, marketed in 1959, where cards disappear when sandwiched between other cards (that is, they are "eaten" by the "cannibal" cards.) The original routine uses gimmicked cards, which eat various small objects (such as a paper clip) in addition to other cards.

Later, magicians began developing sleight of hand versions. The prototypical version first published with credit to Matt Corin in Kabbala #1 (1971).

In a footnote within The Legendary Kabbala (1998), Racherbaumer cites that Corin learned this routine from Sam Schwartz, who at the time had not yet published it. Fulves eventually published it as "A.E.-I.O.U" in Epilogue #14 (March - 1972). Corin demonstrated it to Racherbaumer during the I.B.M. Convention in 1971 and it was subsequently published in Kabbala.

Wesley James, however, claims that he demonstrated his creation to Matt Corin before it was published in Kabbala. (See James' "The Magical Record and Thoughts" or Epilogue Special No. 4, 1976)

Roy Walton recognized that Alex Elmsley's Repulsive Aces could be used to perform Cannibal Cards. See page 229-233 in The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley, Vol. 1 (1991)

Publications

  • Cannibal Jacks (Lin Searles): Pallbearers Review, Folio No. 8 (Autumn 1973, pp. 669-670).
  • More Cannibals (Lin Searles): Pallbearers Review, Folio No. 8 (Autumn 1973, p. 673).
  • Cannibal Cards (Ed Marlo): The Linking Ring, Vol. 55 No. 2 (February 1975, pp. 73-76).
    • The Linking Ring, Vol. 55 No. 4 (April 1975, pp. 84-88).
  • Real Gone Missionaries (Jon Racherbaumer): Kabbala, No. 3 No. 10 (October 1976, pp. 131-135).
  • Cannibal Coin (Wesley James): Epilogue, Special No. 4 (1976, pp. 5-7).
  • Captured (Karl Fulves): Epilogue, Special No. 4 (1976, pp. 14-15).
  • Elmsley's Cannibals (Alex Elmsley): Epilogue, Special No. 4 (1976, pp. 15-16).
  • Women's Cannibal Liberation (David Solomon): Ed Marlo, Marlo's Magazine, Vol. 2 (1977, pp. 3-5).
  • Cannibals - Cannibals (Ed Marlo): Ed Marlo, Marlo's Magazine, Vol. 2 (1977, pp. 6-10).
  • Pieces of Ate (E. T. Hollins): E. T. Hollins, Cardmagic Selfspoken (1980, pp. 32-40).
  • The Complete Walt Lees Cannibal Act, Walt Lees, 1981.
  • Dessert (Danny Korem): Jon Racherbaumer, The Lost Pages of Kabbala (1981, p. 50).
  • Canned Cannibals (Jon Racherbaumer): Jon Racherbaumer, The Lost Pages of Kabbala (1981, pp. 53-54).
  • Cannibalism (Stephen Tucker): Spell-Binder, Vol. 2 No. 14 (June 1982).
  • A Fourth For Dinner (David Britland): Spell-Binder, Vol. 2 No. 15 (July 1982, pp. 283-285).
    • Stephen Tucker, The Best of Spell-Binder Collection One (1987, p. 38).
  • Vitamin Cannibals (Ed Marlo): Magic Manuscript, Vol. 4 No. 2 (August-September 1982, pp. 21-23).
  • Cannibal Cards (Dan Fleshman): Dan Fleshman, Close Up With Dan Fleshman (1984, p. 10).
  • The Phantom Cannibal (J. K. Hartman): Justin Branch, Progressive Card Magic (1985, p. 35).
  • The Carnivor-ace Aces (Justin Higham): Justin Higham, All Hands on Deck! (1985).[1]
  • Smorgasbord Cannibals (Randy Wakeman): Ed Marlo, Thirty Five Years Later (1986, pp. 29-30).
    • Apocalypse, Vol. 12 No. 4 (April 1989, pp. 1626-1627).
  • Cannibal Cards (Bill Goodwin): Bill Goodwin, Lecture 1988 (1988, pp. 1-3).
  • Cannibal Collectors (Justin Higham): Justin Higham, West End Card Session (1989).[2]
  • A CASE of Indigestion (Mike Powers): Mike Powers, Top Secret Stuff (1990, pp. 87-90).
  • The Cannibal Kings (Allan Ackerman): Allan Ackerman, Wednesday Nights (1994, pp. 28-32).
  • Red and Blue Cannibals (Steve Bryant): Steve Bryant, The Little Egypt Gazette For Magicians Only: The Lecture '96 (1996).
  • Tweaked Cannibals (Rob James): EGO, Vol. 1 No. 3 (August 2001).


References

  1. http://www.angelfire.com/blog/card-magic/ahod.html
  2. http://www.angelfire.com/blog/card-magic/wecs.html