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Seeing is
Believing
This is a
slick trick for the close-up card
magician. "Seeing
is Believing" uses a variety of
sleights which need to be learned
first before the trick can be
mastered.
This feat
depends on the intriguing principle
of the introduction of a strange
card into a borrowed deck. You have
a card, say it is the Jack of
Spades, from one of your own packs,
face outwards, in your left trouser
pocket. Borrow a deck and, under
pretense of removing the Joker, or
counting the cards to see if the
deck is complete, sight the Jack of
Spades, slip the left little finger
tip below it and, in turning the
pack face down, hold the break.
Overhand shuffle to the break and
throw the balance on top. This is
the nearest way to get a required
card to the top.
Offer the
deck to a spectator to shuffle,
palming the top card, the Jack of
Spades, by the
One Hand Palm. After a thorough
shuffle let him place the pack on
your left hand and make a free cut.
Add the palmed card in taking up the
remaining cards, put the cut below
these, have the top card taken off
and put in an
envelope without
being looked at. This method of
forcing the Jack of Spades will be
found quite convincing.
Notes: Practice this trick before performing to
get a feel for how and how hard to kick the cards, and
how to "see" the chosen card.
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