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Rising Wand II ★★★
Take a piece of thin thread and trap it under one of the removable ends of your
wand. Tie the other end of the thread to one of the lower buttons on your shirt or
jacket. You will have to rehearse to find the correct length; it may help if you wear
dark patterned clothing to camouflage the thread so the audience will not see it.
Drop the wand (thread end down) into your fist. By moving your fist away from
your body (or vice versa) the wand will rise. You can drop the wand in the magic
water vase and do the same trick. You can also press down on the thread between
the magic water vase and your body while making a magic gesture and the wand
will rise or even jump out of the vase. In view of the audience, pull the wand apart
and hand out all the parts for examination. (The thread will have fallen away and
just hang down from your button where no one should notice it.)
The Rising Ring ★★★
For this trick you need your magic wand, one of the small red rings, and a length
of thin black thread, about 3 times the length of the wand.
Toset up, remove one of the white tips from the wand, lay the end of the black
thread across the top of the black wand and replace the white tip. This will trap the
thread onto the wand. Now tie the other end of the thread onto one of the buttons
of your shirt or jacket. Toperform the trick, slide the ring onto the wand (it should
go over the thread too). As you pull the wand away from your shirt, the taut
thread will make the ring rise on the wand.
Thimble in Vase ★
Tell your audience that the vase has other magic powers (other than making water
vanish) and you can make a thimble change color from red to yellow inside the
vase! Secretly place the small yellow thimble on your right first finger and cover it
with the large red thimble. With the yellow vase in your left hand, tip it sideways
and push both thimbles inside. When you take your finger out, the red one will
stay wedged inside and the yellow thimble will emerge on your finger. (Note: if the
small thimble is too big for you to successfully do this trick, fill it with clay, putty,
or dough for a tighter fit.)
Devaluation ★
Before doing this trick, secretly tape a penny on one side of the double-back card
from your magic box. Keep the penny side of the card out of the sight of your
audience when you show them the card. Now ask a member of the audience for
acoin (other than a penny). Let them watch you tape this to the other side of the
card. Cover the card with a handkerchief and, under protection of this handkerchief,
turn the card rapidly. Remove the card with the penny side facing the audience.
The audience member’s money lost part of its value!
You can do this trick without a handkerchief by turning the card rapidly under
the table.