The boy magician : a large number of the latest and best tricks carefully selected for the rising generation of conjurers (1922)
Dixie, Raymond, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Boston : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. · leaf 217
a case of spiritsat all, but our old tried and valued friend — the fine, strong,black silk thread. One end of the thread is secured to ascrew-eye screwed into the back of the wing of the stage ata height of about six feet; thence it is brought over and acrossthe stage to a second screw-eye in the… … Fig. 86.—The Spirit Talking Hand. Presentation. Now, after you have received the handback from the spectators, you return to the stage and lay iton the glass with the wrist part of it resting on the thread.When you want the hand to rap out an answer, yes or no^to a question, or to rap out a number,…
Magic tricks
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