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--- coin:one-handed_palm_change [2016/11/06 07:56] – Added earlier dice source. tylerwilson
+++ coin:one-handed_palm_change [2021/04/10 21:19] (current) – added Hocus Pocus reference denisbehr
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 ====== One-handed Palm Change ======
-The palm-to-palm exchange with coins is Earl "Presto" Johnson's. See //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37394/Genii/73|Genii]]//, Vol. 73 No. 12, Dec. 2010, p. 73.
+The palm-to-palm exchange with coins is Earl "Presto" Johnson's, who first published it in Dick Brooks and Dorothy Dietrich's //[[http://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1978-hocus-pocus-presto-chango.pdf|Hocus Pocus]]//, Vol. 1 No. 2, Sep./Oct. 1978, p. 52, as "Presto-Chango". For further discussion of this sleight, see //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37394/Genii/73|Genii]]//, Vol. 73 No. 12, Dec. 2010, p. 73.
-The move dates back much farther with dice. In a book warning readers about the dice cheat, Gilbert Walker mentions the one-handed palm change being in use at the time. See Walker's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12478/A+manifest+detection+of+the+most+vyle+and+detestable+uses+of+dice+play/43-44|A Manifest Detection of the Most Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play]]//, 1552, p. 24 of the 1850 edition.
+===== Precursor =====
+The single-handed switching of objects for one another dates back much farther with dice. In a book warning readers about the dice cheat, Gilbert Walker mentions the one-handed palm change being in use at the time. See Walker's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/12478/A+manifest+detection+of+the+most+vyle+and+detestable+uses+of+dice+play/43-44|A Manifest Detection of the Most Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play]]//, 1552, p. 24 of the 1850 edition.
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