The Juggler's Oracle; or, The Whole Art of Legerdemain Laid Open

The Juggler's Oracle; or, The Whole Art of Legerdemain Laid Open - Consisting of all the newest and most surprising tricks and experiments with cards, cups and balls, conveyance of money and rings, boxes, fire, strings and knots; with many curious experiments by optical illusion, chymical changes, and magical cards, &c.

Is an art whereby a person seems to work wonderful, incredible, and almost impossible feats. There is no supernatural or infernal agency in the case; for every trick is performed by nimbleness, agility, and effrontery. The Operator, or Conjurer, should be a person of bold and undaunted resolution, so as to set a good face upon the matter, in case of the occurrence of any mistake whereby a discovery of the nature of the trick in hand may take place by one of the spectators. In showing feats and juggling with cards, the principal point consists in the shuffling them nimbly, and always keeping one card either at the bottom or in some known place of the pack, four or five cards from it; hereby you will seem to work wonders, for it will be easy for you to see one card, which, though you be perceived to do it, will not be suspected, if you shuffle them well afterwards; and this caution I must give you, that, in reserving the bottom card, you must always, whilst you shuffle, keep it a little before or a little behind all2 the cards lying underneath it, bestowing it either a little beyond its fellows before, right over the fore-finger, or else behind the rest, so as the little finger of the left hand may meet with it, which is the easier, readier, and better way. In the beginning of your shuffling, shuffle as thick as you can, and, in the end, throw upon the pack the nether card, with so many more, at the least, as you would have preserved for any purpose, a little before or a little behind the rest, provided always that your fore-finger (if the pack lie behind) creep up to meet with the bottom card; and, when you feel it, you may then hold it until you have shuffled over the cards again, still leaving your kept card below. Being perfect herein, you may do almost what you like with cards by this means: what pack soever you use, though it consist of eight, twelve, or twenty cards, you may keep them still together unsevered, next to the card, and yet shuffle them often, to satisfy the admiring beholders. As for example, and for brevity sake, to show divers feats under one: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 57487
Author: Boaz, H. (Herman)
Release Date: Jul 12, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English