Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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 ====== Ring on Cord (Tied to Wrists) a.k.a. The Slave Bangle ====== ====== Ring on Cord (Tied to Wrists) a.k.a. The Slave Bangle ======
  
-According to Al Mann, this was invented by Edward T. Goddard and published in an unidentified 1926 magazine see Mann's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/22348/The+Psychic+Ring/13|The Psychic Ring]]//p. 13). Howeverthis seems unlikely, given "Improved Examined Ring on Cord" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10335/Elliott+s+Last+Legacy/261|Elliott's Last Legacy]]// (1923, p. 265), which is clearly an elaboration on the standard method. Will Avis describes the trick in his "Tricks for All" column in the March 20, 1909, issue of Goldston's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10744/Magician+Monthly+Vol+05/39|The Magician]]//, p. 43. It is unclear if all the tricks presented in his column were claimed as original, but it seems so. Avis does offer a nice touch, by using a clear glass bracelet.+An early version of this trick, titled "The Spiritual Ring Test", appears in W. H. J. Shaw's //[[https://askalexander.org/display/24735/Magic+up+to+date,+or,+Shaw's+magical+instructor/7|Magic Up to Date]]//, 1896, p. 3. Shaw dresses the effect in the trappings of a spirit phenomenon. No cord is involved. A ring is seemingly made to penetrate onto a spectator's wrist while his hand is firmly grasped by the magician. 
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 +Will Avis describes the trick as it has been done ever since---the ring penetrating onto a cord, the ends of which are tied to the magician's wrists---in his "Tricks for All" column in Will Goldston's //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10744/Magician+Monthly+Vol+05/39|The Magician]]//, Vol. 5 No. 4, Mar. 1909, p. 43. It is unclear if all the tricks presented in his column were claimed as original, but it seems so. Avis does offer a nice touch, by using a clear glass bracelet. 
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 +Dr. James William Elliot published his "Improved Examined Ring on Cord" in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/40007/Elliott+s+Last+Legacy/267|Elliott's Last Legacy]]//, 1923, p. 265. 
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