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--- cards:rising_card_card_on_wall [2016/11/23 18:50] – stephenminch
+++ cards:rising_card_card_on_wall [2017/03/25 19:22] – Added note about Astley's plagairism of Decremp. stephenminch
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 An early version of these plots, in which a chosen card vanishes from the deck and appears on a wall, where it rises to the ceiling and then travels across it, is described in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/21485/Breslaw+s+Last+Legacy/158|Breslaw's Last Legacy]]//, 1784, p. 132. A vague description which is thought possibly to be an early reference to the Rising Card is found in Tomaso Garzoni's book //La piazza universale di tutte le professioni del mondoli//, 1585, where mention is made of the amateur conjurer Abramo Colorni being able to "make any card named [...] come out of the pack." However, this effect may have been closer to that of the Haunted Pack.
-The year after Breslaw's book appeared, Philip Astley described an effect closer to the modern day rising card: "The Card springing up into the Air, from the Pack, without being touched". This appeared in //Natural Magic: or, Physical Amusements Revealed//, 1785, p. 41. In it, the deck is placed in a holder while the selection rests on a pin that is secretly attached to thread coming up and out of the holder. By pulling down on the thread, the pin rises up in the holder, bringing the selection with it. Pulling fast enough will get the card airborne.
+The same year the Breslaw book appeared, Henri Decremps published his classic //[[http://askalexander.org/display/21700/La+magie+blanche+d+voil+e/79|La Magie
+blanche dévoilée]]//, on page 57 of which is found "La Carte qui saute en l'air, en sortant du jeu, sans qu'on la touche" (trans.: "The Card springing up into the air, from the pack, without being touched"), which is much closer to the modern-day Rising Card. In it, the deck is placed in a holder while the selection rests on a pin that is secretly attached to thread coming up and out of the holder. By pulling down on the thread, the pin rises up in the holder, bringing the selection with it. Pulling fast enough will get the card airborne. One year later, Philip Astley published an English translation of this trick from Decremps in //Natural Magic: or, Physical Amusements Revealed//, 1785, p. 41. In fact, twenty-three of the twenty-four tricks explained by Astley are unacknowledged translations from //La Magie blanche dévoilée//.
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