Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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cards:magnetized_cards [2023/06/21 19:59] – Added Evening Star citation. stephenminchcards:magnetized_cards [2023/06/21 20:10] (current) – link added denisbehr
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-The effect of causing a number of cards to cling mysteriously to the hand seems to have entered the public realm before it was recorded in magic's literature. The method using a pin passed through the skin was explained under the title of "The Power of Magnetism" in the Jan. 5, 1895 issue of the //Evening Star//, a Washington, D.C. newspaper, p. 16.+The effect of causing a number of cards to cling mysteriously to the hand seems to have entered the public realm before it was recorded in magic's literature. The method using a pin passed through the skin was explained under the title of "The Power of Magnetism" in the Jan. 5, 1895 issue of the //[[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1895 01 05 Wash DC Evening Star p 16 magnetized cards.jpg|Evening Star]]//, a Washington, D.C. newspaper, p. 16.
  
 The trick appeared as "Gravity Defied" in August Roterberg's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/34138/New+era+card+tricks/105|New Era Card Tricks]]//, 1897, p. 97. The trick appeared as "Gravity Defied" in August Roterberg's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/34138/New+era+card+tricks/105|New Era Card Tricks]]//, 1897, p. 97.