Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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 This visible one-handed transformation of a face-up card on top of a face-down deck was invented by Looy Simonoff; see //Apocalypse//, Vol. 1 No. 9, Sep. 1978, p. 103. This visible one-handed transformation of a face-up card on top of a face-down deck was invented by Looy Simonoff; see //Apocalypse//, Vol. 1 No. 9, Sep. 1978, p. 103.
  
-A precursor of this transformation may be seen in a one-handed change-production, "The Turn Over", by Louis F. Christianer in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/9785/Felsman+s+Magical+Review+Vol+01/90|Felsman's Magic Review]]//, Vol. No. 10Aug1920p. 5. In Christianer's change, after the top card of the deck is displayed and returned face down to the top, with a flick of the wrist, a selection appears instantaneously face up on top of the pack. Christianer cites the old Air-Pressure Turnover as his inspiration.+A precursor of this transformation may be seen in a one-handed change-production, "The Top Card", by Louis F. Christianer in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/16823/Magical+Bulletin/5|The Magical Bulletin]]//, Vol. No. 3Mar1917np. In Christianer's change, after the top card of the deck is displayed and returned face down to the top, with a flick of the wrist, a selection appears instantaneously face up on top of the pack. In a later republishing of the move (//[[https://askalexander.org/display/9785/Felsman+s+Magical+Review+Vol+01/90|Felsman's Magic Review]]//, Vol. 1 No. 10, Aug. 1920, p. 5), Christianer cites the old Air-Pressure Turnover as his inspiration.
  
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