Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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 +This effect 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).
  
 Postdating methods with pins, Burling Hull invented the method in which a half-circle tab concealed in the back design of a prepared card is used to suspend a circle of loose cards under the palm-down hand. He published this in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18849/Sleights+Being+a+Number+of+Incidental+Effects/7|Sleights]]//, 1914, p. 7, where he says he "invented and Copyrighted" the gimmick in 1907. Postdating methods with pins, Burling Hull invented the method in which a half-circle tab concealed in the back design of a prepared card is used to suspend a circle of loose cards under the palm-down hand. He published this in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/18849/Sleights+Being+a+Number+of+Incidental+Effects/7|Sleights]]//, 1914, p. 7, where he says he "invented and Copyrighted" the gimmick in 1907.
  
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