The Juggler's Oracle

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| Título | The Juggler's Oracle |
| Autor | Desconocido |
| Ilustraciones | ... |
| Idioma | Inglés |
| Tema | General |
| Fecha publicación | 1826 Atribuido a Herman Boaz |
| Editorial | William Cole |
| Páginas | 84 |
| Tamaño | ... |
| Formato | Papel |
| ISBN | ... |
El título completo de este libro es: "The Juggler's Oracle, Or, The Whole Art of Legerdemain Laid Open: Consisting of All the Newest and Most Surprising Tricks and Experiments with Cards, Cups and Balls, Conveyance of Money and Rings, Boxes, Fire, Strings and Knots : with Many Curious Experiments by Optical Illusion, Chymical ..."
Se le atribuye a ilusionista británico Herman Boaz, pero se cree que realmente no lo escribió él, y que su nombre solo fue utilizado para incrementar las ventas.
Contenido
TRICKS WITH CARDS.
- To deliver Four Aces, and to convert them into Knaves
- Method of making the Pass
- The Card of Divination
- Another Way
- The Four Confederate Cards
- The Fifteen Thousand Livres
- The Magic Ring
- The Card in the Mirror
- The Marvellous Vase
- The Nerve Trick
- To make the Constable catch the Knave
- To change a Card into a King or Queen
- To tell a Person what Card he took Notice of
- To tell what Card is at the Bottom, when the Pack is shuffled
- Another Way, not having seen the Cards
- To tell, without Confederacy, what Card one thinks of
- To make a Card jump out of the Pack, and run on the Table
- To tell a Card, and to convey the Same into a Nut or Cherry-Stone
- To let Twenty Gentlemen draw Twenty Cards, and to make one Card every Man’s Card
- To transform the Four Kings into Aces, and afterwards to render them all Blank Cards
- To name all the Cards in the Pack, and yet never see them
- To show any one what Card he takes Notice of
- To tell the Number of Spots on the Bottom Cards, laid down in several Heaps
- To make any two Cards come together which may be named
- Card nailed to the Wall by a Pistol-shot
- To tell what Card one thinks of
- Another Way
- To make a Card jump out of an Egg
- The Little Sportsman
CUPS AND BALLS.
- To pass the Balls through the Cups
- A still more Extraordinary Mode of Playing at Cups and Balls
CONVEYANCE OF MONEY, &c.
- To convey Money from one Hand to the other
- To convert Money into Counters, and the Reverse
- To put a Sixpence into each Hand, and, with Words, bring them together
- To put a Sixpence into a Stranger’s Hand, and another into your own, and to convey both into the Stranger’s Hand with Words
- To show the same Feat otherwise
- To throw a Piece of Money away, and find it again
- To make a Sixpence leap out of a Pot or to run along a Table
- To make a Sixpence sink through a Table, and to vanish out of a Handkerchief
- To know if a Coin be a Head or Woman, and the Party to stand in another Room
- To command Seven Halfpence through the Table
- To command a Sixpence out of a Box
- To blow a Sixpence out of another Man’s Hand
- To make a Ring shift from one Hand to another, and to make it go on whatever Finger is required, while Somebody holds both Arms
- To transfer a Counter into a Silver Groat
- To make a Silver Twopence be plain in the Palm of your Hand, and be passed from thence wherever you like
- To convey a Sixpence out of the Hand of one that holds it fast
- To convey a Shilling from one Hand into another, holding your Hands apart
- To transform any small Thing into any other Form, by folding of Paper
- Another Trick of the same Nature
- A Watch recovered after being beaten to Pieces in a Mortar
TRICKS WITH BOXES, &c.
- The Egg-Box
- The Penetrative Guinea
- The Chest which opens at Command
- The Melting-Box
- Trick upon the Globe-Box
- Trick with the Funnel
- The Magical Bell and Bushel
- Out of an Empty Bag to bring upwards of an Hundred Eggs; and, afterwards, a living Fowl
- Bonus Genius; or, Hiccius Doctius
- To make a Knife leap out of a Pot
- To turn a Box of Bird-seed into a living Bird
EXPERIMENTS WITH FIRE.
- To produce a Carmine Red Flame
- An Orange-coloured Flame
- To make Balloons with Soap and Water that catch Fire and detonate
- A Brilliant Blue Flame
- An Emerald Green Flame
- Loud Detonations, like the Discharge of Artillery
- A Well of Fire
- To make a Room seem all on Fire
- To walk on a Hot Iron Bar, without Danger of Burning
- To eat Fire, and blow it up in your Mouth with a Pair of Bellows
- To Light a Candle by a Glass of Water
- Fulminating Powder
- To set Fire to a Combustible Body by the Reflection of Two Concave Mirrors
- To give the Faces of the Company the Appearance of Death
- To dispose two Little Figures, so that one shall light a Candle, and the other put it out
- To construct a Lantern which will enable a Person to read by Night, at a great Distance
TRICKS WITH STRINGS, KNOTS, &c.
- To cut a Lace asunder in the Middle, and to make it Whole again
- To burn a Thread and make it Whole again with the Ashes
- To pull many Yards of Ribbon out of the Mouth
- To cut a Piece of Tape into Four Parts, and make it Whole again with Words
- To unloose a Knot upon a Handkerchief, by Words
- To draw a Cord through the Nose
- To take Three Button-Moulds off a String
OPTICAL ILLUSIONS.
- The Multiplying Mirror
- The Magic-Lantern
- The Phantascope
- The Enchanted Mirrors
- The Wonderful Phantoms
- The Real Apparition
- To draw a Deformed Figure, which will appear well proportioned from a certain Point of View
CHEMICAL CHANGES.
- To change the Colour of a Rose
- To turn Water into Wine
- Arbor Dianæ; or, the Silver Tree
- The Lead Tree
- The Tree of Mars
- To form a Metallic Tree, in the Shape of a Fir
- To make a Gold or Silver Tree, to serve as a Chimney Ornament
- Sympathetic or Secret Inks
- Preparation of Green Sympathetic Ink
- Blue Sympathetic Ink
- Yellow Sympathetic Ink
- Purple Sympathetic Ink
- Rose-coloured Sympathetic Ink
- Application of the Secret Inks
- A Drawing which alternately represents Winter and Summer Scenes
- Demonstration of the various Strata of Earth which cover the Globe
- To freeze Water in the Midst of Summer, without the Application of Ice
MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS AND EXPERIMENTS.
- To swallow a long Pudding made of Tin
- An artificial Spider
- To pass a Ring through your Cheek
- To cut a Hole in a Cloak, Scarf, or Handkerchief, and by Words to make it Whole again
- The Dancing Egg
- To make three Figures Dance in a Glass
- To shoot a Swallow, and to bring him to Life again
- Singular Trick with a Fowl
- To put a Lock upon a Man’s Mouth
- To thrust a Bodkin into the Forehead, without Hurt
- To thrust a Bodkin through your Tongue
- To appear to cut your Arm off, without any Hurt or Danger
- Tricks with a Cat
- To make a Calf’s Head bellow, when served up to Table
- To make a Ball rise above the Water
- Mode of sealing Letters, whereby the Impression cannot be taken
- The Enchanted Egg
- To cut a Man’s Head off, and to put the Head into a Platter, a Yard from the Body
- To cause Beer to be wrung out of the Handle of a Knife
- To cut a Glass by Heat
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