Jean Hugard's Mental Magic: Dazzling Mind Tricks with Playing Cards

By Jean Hugard

Learn the Secrets Behind Mind Tricks and Mental Mysticism with Cards

Learn the Secrets Behind Mind Tricks and Mental Mysticism with Cards
Looking to expand your magical repertoire? Want to entrance and confound your audience with amazing card tricks? Written by the great Jean Hugard, this classic magic manual to mind tricks with cards will teach readers some of the most unbelievable card tricks ever invented.
Included within are sections on how to perform awe-inspiring card illusions that will captivate any audience, including timeless tricks such as The Three Heaps, The Trio, The Moving Finger, A Card and a Number, and many more! Hugard’s instruction provides the methodology needed to seamlessly execute each trick and wow your spectators.
With a new foreword by Steve Cohen, master contemporary magician, this edition of Jean Hugard’s Mental Magic is perfect for any card magic lover, whether an aspiring magician or a professional, and is sure to inform and inspire.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Racehorse
• Release date: Sep 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781631582462

Book preview

INTRODUCTION

THE IMPORTANCE OF SHOWMANSHIP

Before entering on an explanation of these mind reading effects, a description of the proper method of presentation and showmanship is desirable. The author of a booklet recently published, describing the difference between a magician and a mind reader, writes that the magician repeatedly shows his hands empty and protests that he does not use this or that sleight, whereas the mind reader does none of these things, presenting his feats without flourishes or any suggestion whatever of cleverness in manipulation. Now, if that author had written manipulator instead of magician he would have been right. A finished magician will avoid all unnecessary and ostentatious display of the front and back of his hands, showing hands empty and so on. His every move will be a natural one and only such as would be used by anyone under similar circumstances. In every way possible, he will strive to give the impression that he himself plays only a passive part in connection with the wonders that