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--- cards:magnetized_cards [2013/11/30 18:02] – tylerwilson
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 ====== Magnetized Cards ======
-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.
+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.
-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.
+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.
+Postdating the method with a pin, 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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