Farelli's Card Magic

Farelli's Card Magic
Author	Victor Farelli
Publisher	E. Bagshawe & Co.
Publication Date	1933
Language	English
Pages	105
Subject	Card Magic

FARELLI’S CARD MAGIC:

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON LITTLE-KNOWN CARD SLEIGHTS, INCLUDING NUMEROUS NEW CARD PROBLEMS By VICTOR FARELLI

Editor of

"The Odin Rings.”

Author of

"The Master Speller"

"Controlled Coincidence"

"The Mystic Seven"

Illustrated by Seventy-eight Photographs and Sketches, also many Diagrams.

CONTENTS

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Index of Illustrations

PART ONE

Chapter 1 - FLOURISHES

Fancy Shuffles

• The Standard "Waterfall" Shuffle
• The “Double Waterfall" Shuffle
• The “Spring” Shuffle

The Cards on the Arm

• The “Throw”
• The “V.F. Throw and Turn"
• The “Slide”
• The Mulholland “Grab"
• The Back to Front “Toss”
• Spreading Two Packs
• The “Dart Forward”
• The Weyer “Gather-Up”
• An Easy Combination

The “Boomerang” Card

• Throwing Two Cards in Succession
• Throwing Cards with Both Hands
• Card Caught with Hand at Side
• Throwing Two Cards Together
• Catching a Card with Scissors
• Addition to Cutting a Card in the Air
• Loaded Card for “Boomerang”

The “One Hand Drop”

• The Cards to Use
• The “Blindfold Drop”
• The Vertical “One Hand Drop”
• The “Ambidextrous” Drop

Chapter 2—PASSES

• The “Drop" to Cover the Pass
• A Common Fault
• Turning the Pack to Hide the Pass
• The “Move” that Mystified Downs
• Dr. Elliott’s Presentation
• The Rubber Band Version
• The “Weyer” Version
• The Improved “Bluff” Pass
• The “Charlier” Pass
• The “Veneri” Move

Chapter 3-SUBSTITUTES FOR THE PASS

• The “Mahatma” Substitutes
• First Version
• Second Version
• Third Version
• The Bagshawe Substitute
• The “Riffle” Substitutes
• Using a “Longitudinal Bridge”
• Using the Veneri “Flesh” Break
• The “Strip Cut” Shuffle Substitute
• Eliminating the Pass for Forcing
• The “Strip” Cut
• “Sighting”
• Shuffling to the Centre
• By means of the “In-jog”
• Pack Cut by Spectator
• The “Continental” Cut

Chapter 4—FORCING

• Timing
• Balance
• Some “Imperfections”
• Closing the Fan
• Suggesting Liberty of Choice
• Aggressiveness
• Exposing on the Stage
• The Nervous Assistant
• Choosing a “Force"
• A “Tip” from Spain
• The Table “Spread”
• A Simple Infallible Force
• The Touch Method
• The “Pencil” Force

Chapter 5—FALSE SHUFFLING

• Should Cards be Shuffled?
• The Roumanian “Fan” Shuffle
• The “Lace-Through” Table Shuffle
• Learning the Sleight
• The Interlocking Shuffle
• The “Waterfall” Blind Shuffle
• The Oblique Cut
• The Shuffle
• The “Strip Cut” False Shuffle
• The “Milking” Shuffle
• “Setting” the Pack
• A Substitute for False Shuffling

Chapter 6—PALMING

• The Cards to Use
• Common Faults
• Curling the Forefinger
• Stillness of the Arm
• Spreading the Thumb
• The Longitudinal Grip
• The Devant “Mark-Off”

Chapter 7-SECOND DEALING

• The First Method
• First Exercise : Moving a Pair
• Second Exercise : The Withdrawal
• Third Exercise : Seizing the Second Card
• Fourth Exercise : The “Swing”
• The Second Method

PART TWO

Chapter 8—Miscellaneous SLEIGHTS and “TIPS”

• A Link with the Past
• A Clean Slip
• A Little-known “Glimpse"

• The Veneri “Flesh” Break
• The Veneri Discovery
• A General Utility “Location”
• Disposal of Located Card
• Suggestions A “Sucker Gag ”
• Returning a Card to the “Fan”
• Thumb-Counting
• Crimp and Riffle Location
• The Goldin Visible “Change”
• The Houdini “Bluff” Change
• The “Left-About” Change
• To “Sight” the Bottom Card
• How to “Bridge”
• For the Table “Spread” Force
• The Tail of the “Q”
• Cards with White Borders
• The Mexican Turn-Over
• To Make Cards “Slippery”
• Obtaining a “Stock” With a Borrowed Pack
• Learning New Sleights

Chapter 9—TRICKS BASED ON THE “GLIDE"

• The Three Packets
• The Partagas “Sell”
• A Matter of Thought

Chapter 10—EASY EFFECTS

• Subtlety versus Manipulation
• A “Close-Work” Discovery
• The “Follow-Up”
• The “Soo” Stripper Pack
• The “Double Crimp”

Chapter 11—THE CARD TO WALLET

• A Strange Hallucination
• Up His Sleeve
• The “Sandwich”
• A Double Surprise
• The Original Card to Pocket
• For Conjurers Only
• Pure Bluff
• With an Unprepared Pocket-Book

Chapter 12-MORE TRICKS

• The “Do-it-Yourself” Discovery
• The Veneri “Turn”
• Four from Five Leaves One
• The “Slick” Ace
• A Study in Blue and White
• The “Simplex” Thirty Cards
• The Floating Image
• Slightly Different Presentation
• An Additional Effect
• History and “Invention”

L’ENVOI

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