Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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cards:double-backed_card [2013/03/11 17:58] – created seedcards:double-backed_card [2013/04/14 09:35] tylerwilson
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-The first description occurs in WmHenry Cremer's //The Secret Out: One Thousand Tricks in Drawing Room or White Magic...// (1859)See "To let a person draw a card which he cannot name"which is a gag. However, Hofzinser was known to use this gaffed card in the mid-1800s.+The first description occurs in R.P's //Ein Spiel Karten// (1853, translated by DrLori Pieper in 2005)in a trick with the translated title of “The Nameless Card.” It is a gag, rather than a magic trick. However, Hofzinser was known to use this gaffed card for magical uses in the mid-1800s. See Domination of Thought in //Hofzinser’s Card Conjuring// (1910, English translation 1931). 
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