Magic Of The World

[ ^ M895 J793.3 .. / Mu I ho Hand Magic of the //orld PUBLIC LIBRARY FORT WAYNE AND ALLEN COUNTY, IND. ALLEN COUNTY EXTENSION DEPT. ANTHONY 3333 CX). \ 'f- SCHOOU> ^/^ 3 1833 00603 7128 Magic of the World i Magic of the World BY JOHN MULHOLLAND * Illustrated by Al Hormel Charles Scrihner's Sons • New York Gjpyright '^ 1965 John Mulholland This book published simultaneously in the United States of America and in Canada Copyright under the Berne Convention All rights reser\ed. No mav be reproduced in part of this book anv form without the permission of Charles Scribner's Sons. A— 9.65[UJ] Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 65-21366 CO. SCHOOT5 C617657 Contents 1 • From 2 ' How 3 • the Beginning, the story 9 of magic through the ages Magic Works, 17 the ways magicians mystify people The King's Power, 23 card tricks of the gypsies 4 • Urbut, 33 5 • She-fa Cash, 6 • an Egyptian feat of restoring a severed string coin 41 tricks from China Mental Magic, 57 a German method of sending thoughts 7 • Here, There and Everywhere, 65 8 • Choose a Color, 75 9 • making designs appear, disappear and move about Spanish magic with a balloon Jadoo, 83 a feat from India with a stick and a string 10 • Der Rote 11 • Tagina Metal, 105 12 • Geist, 95 Austrian magic with a red block of wood a vanishing and reappearing metal cube from Maza Cassa, Italian Japan 115 magic with a coin which travels invisibly 13 • 14 • First American Magic. 126 the dancing arrow of the American Indian Followers of Merlin, 137 a combination of two British tricks done with money 15 • The Erring Eves, 149 16 • Champion Bombyx Mori, 161 17 • optical trickery from France making many yards of silk instantly The Magic Show, 181 suggestions for giving a performance of magic Index, 189 I ^ Magic of the World — • From • 1 the Beginning JVlanv thousands of years ago, in the shade of a mud house, about twenty people stood attentively watching one man. "My hands. It fully as I friends," said the man, "you see I am has been passed around and you have close my fingers around the stone and holding a stone in all felt it. Watch my care- listen well as I say the magic words." The speaker gazed up baa at the sky and almost sang the words, "Bee — baa — bow." Then he lowered his eyes, looked at the people and again spoke. "The magic words have been slowly. see it know You see the stone has really is it is an egg<