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Anatole Inner circle 1912 Posts |
I developed this routine many years ago as a Halloween packet card trick, based on a well-known ace vanish from the MacDonald Aces. You will also need a magnetic flap card box. I can't go into details about the working because of the Café restrictions on revealing secrets, but knowledgeable card workers will understand what to do. Manufacturing, distribution and publication rights for the card trick are reserved by me. It's relatively easy to adapt the routine to jumbo cards, but Café readers are permitted to make up a set for their own individual use.
You will need some card-sized clip art of Dracula and clip art of wooden crosses that are printed onto a sheet of 8 1/2 by 11 label paper. To make cutting the pictures off the label sheet easier, I put a thin-line border around the pictures. I use wood-grain Contact(tm) paper to cover the rabbit in the hat picture on the outside of the card box to make it look more coffin-like, The effect is basically that you apparently take a packet of cards from the Tenyo box. (When I open the card box I make a creaking noise like a rusty coffin being opened.) The top card shows a card depicting Dracula. You use the MacDonald ace dodge to turn it face down and place it on the table. Then you place the four remaining crucifix cards around the face down "Dracula" card. You patter that it appears that Dracula has been trapped. Patter about how the crosses are intended to corner Dracula. But Dracula can assume many shapes... a bat, a wolf, even the form of a dust mote riding on a moonbeam. Turn over the face down card surrounded by crucifixes, and the card will be blank--Dracula has vanished! Now open the card box to show that the undead count has returned to his coffin. The jack o'lantern idea is very simple, Just take an apple balloon and decorate it to have a jack o'lantern face. (If you don't know what an apple balloon is, ask one of your magic friends who does clowning--or ask your friendly neighborhood magic dealer.) Genesis: My Dracula packet trick originally started out as a Star Wars trick where Obiwan Kenobi vanished after being surrounded by star troopers and Darth Vader. But then I heard of the trouble that another magician had who marketed a Star Wars packet trick, so I switched to Dracula, who is not only in the public domain but based on an historical character anyway. The switch to Dracula was better anyway because this character is pretty timeless and the patter about changing into various forms is neat (especially the dustmote riding on a moonbeam) and based on actual information provided by Van Helsing in the Bram Stoker novel. Bonus for those who have read this far and disdain packet tricks. One blank-faced card is used, but blank faced cards are generally a little more acceptable by purists than cards with clip art printed on them: Some dealers carry a trick with a small pocket mirror that reveals a King of Hearts when breathed upon. With a little ingenuity, you can patter about the King of Hearts representing the undead count and use a simple sleight to turn the KH face down, hold it above the mirror, and demonstrate that vampires cast no reflection. You can work out the rest of the routine on your own, including how Dracula/KH vanishes and has been captured into the mirror. I include patter about how in the old days, a mirror was held up to a person's lips to see if he was still breathing. Happy Halloween! ----- Amado "Sonny" Narvaez
----- Sonny Narvaez
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