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May 27, 1981 royal road to card magic was very helpful for me in that it helped my magic skills progress, but the book was not well written, and nearly bored me to death. Thirteen diagrams and easytofollow directions provide the novice with fundamentals for successfully mastering more than 50 impressive techniques among them the false shuffle, the corner crimp, sensitive finger tips, palming, the glide, the slip force. Taking the spectators hand, the performer asks them to concentrate on both the suit and the time, and moving their hand over the cards the performer at last pushes it down onto one card. Jean hugard 4 december 1871 14 august 1959 was an australian professional magician history. Presentation mode open print download current view. The royal road to card magic by jean hugard goodreads. The royal road to card magic by jean hugard book read online. Encyclopedia of card tricks free pdf ebook sciencehack. Jean hugard hugard came into this world december 4, 1871 in toowoomba, queensland, australia as john gerard rodney boyce originally aka jean hugarde.
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Would you like to confound your friends, amaze your ac. Get a member of the audience to shuffle the pack well. The book went on to become a standard textbook of magic, which author henry hay called one of the best and largest books ever written about magic. Encyclopedia of card tricks many consider jean hugards encyclopedia of. This version of a classic magic book was created and distributed by.
If you could put together a collection of these magazines you would almost have a complete course on card tricks, by some of t. Card tricks for beginners by wilfrid jonson overdrive. The encyclopedia of card tricks originally compiled by glenn gravatt revised and expanded by jean hugard chapter i miscellaneous tricks card and crystal ball, the card detectives card doctor, the card miraclecertain, the 1. Encyclopedia of card tricks by jean hugard, paperback. When he has memorized it, have him put the card on the top of the deck dont worry he will be fooled. Fan out the cards face down and have the spectator pick any card. Carl waring jones, who had contracted for its publication, hired jean hugard in 1938 to complete and enlarge the text to over 1,000 pages. Encyclopedia of card tricks hard cover madhatter magic shop. The royal road to card magic is available as a pdf ebook from.
Card manipulation is the branch of magical illusion that deals with creating effects using sleight of hand techniques involving playing cards. Hugards magicmonthly was one of the greatest magazines on magic ever publishedbecause it was edited by one of magics most knowledgeable men. Jean hugards card manipulations part 3 learn free magic tricks. Since the manipulators skill is the only determining factor, once a degree of card dexterity is acquired the performer can go on to learn tricks sure to entertain, at any time, with no further preparation, using any available deck of cards for the performance. Twenty chapters of the finest card tricks known and containing every variety of artifice known to the subtle card worker, hundreds of choice secrets of the worlds card experts assembled and classified in such form that you can find what you want instantly at your finger tips. See a subtle game, in the nikola card system 1927, included as chapter 20 of jean hugards. Howard thurstons card tricks to see all the latest instant download magic tricks click here. A description of a method of palming the top card of the pack appeared in the magic wand some years ago.
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