Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 2

Lessons 20 to 33 & 33A (added 1975)

1942/1975
Written by Harlan Tarbell
Work of Various
416 pages (Hardcover), published by D. Robbins & Co., Inc.
Illustrated with drawings by Harlan Tarbell
Language: English
188 entries
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Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
The P-L Vanishing Wand wand wrapped up in paper vanishes, paper shell
 		47
The Wandering Wand and Envelopes wand travels from one long envelope to another
 		50
Wand from Pocketbook from too small purse
 		51
Ed Reno Cigar from Pocketbook cigar from too small purse
 		53
Wand from Card Case
54
Simplex Handkerchief Producing Wand gaffed wand to produce handkerchief
 		55
Vanishing Handkerchief Wand vanishes inside wand
 		56
The Rising Wand rubber band
 		58
Sure-Grip Magnetized Wand
59
Harlan Tarbell Tarbell's Magnetized Wand thread
 		60
William G. Edwards Edwards' Magnetic Wand other things stick to wand
 		63
Harlan Tarbell Magnetic Rising Cards cards rise by touching deck with gaffed wand (page 63)
 		64
An Emergency Magnetic Wand if wand on page 63 is unavailable, tape
 		67
The Penetrating Wand sliding ends
 		67
Card in the Egg - Wand torn and restored card to egg
 		69
Rising Ring on Wand thread
 		73
Laurie Ireland Ireland's Growing Wand
75
Frank Kelly Vanishing Wand Routine wand vanishes and reappears on spectator's back
 		76
Superba Paper Cone for Handkerchief Vanish
79
Ralph W. Read, Harlan Tarbell The Ghostly Silk comedy silk from paper cone to glass
 		82
Puffing Rice in a Cone making popcorn in paper cone
 		85
The Two-Way Paper Cone vanishing, switching, producing silks, ...
 		86
1 - Vanishing Handkerchiefs using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
 		87
2 - Production of Silks using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
 		87
3 - Color Change of Silks using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
 		87
4 - The Knotted and Unknotted Silks using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
 		87
5 - Sympathetic Silks using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
 		87
6 - Cut and Restored Handkerchief using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
 		88
7 - Torn and Restored Tissue Paper using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
 		89
8 - Cards and Ribbon cards thread themself onto ribbon, using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
 		89
9 - Paper Linking Rings using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
 		90
10 - Patriotic Silks using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
 		90
11 - Twentieth Century Silks using Two-Way Paper Cone (page 86)
 		90
Royal Paper Cone to vanish small flat objects
 		91
Century Card Vanishing Paper to vanish few cards
 		92
ACME Coin Vanishing Paper gaffed paper with pocket
 		93
Modern Coin Vanishing Paper gaffed paper with pocket
 		94
Coin Through the Saucer marked coin visibly penetrates saucer
 		96
The Miser's Dream full routine, using hat
 		99
Hand to Hand Flight of Four Coins
108
The Passe Coins and Glasses from glass to glass, using coin on thread
 		112
The Passe Coins from Hand to Hand using shell
 		118
The Phantom Coin shell applications, coin travels, coin vanishes
 		122
Eugene Verbeck The Coin in the Magical Envelopes basically a coin into nest of envelopes with newspaper-envelope transformations, for credit information see Carney reference
Variations 123
Vest Holder for Coins
125
The Push-In Vanish
131
The Pick-Up Vanish
132
The Pivot Vanish
133
Front and Back Hand Palm
134
The Throwing Vanish
135
The Pull-Away Vanish
136
To Vanish Cigarette Up The Nose
137
To Produce Cigarette From Ear
137
To Swallow Cigarette
137
Paul Fox Vanish and Production
138
The Multiplying Cigarette
139
The Change-Over Palm
141
The Change-Over Palm
141
The Burning Cigarette and Silk Handkerchief cigarette into silk, thumb tip
 		141
The Phantom Cigarette classic pantomime production
 		143
The Vanishing Cigarette pull
 		144
Ed Reno The Vanishing Pencil pull
 		146
The Dollar Bill in the Cigarette
146
Catching Cigarettes in the Air using gimmick on finger
 		150
An Odd Cigarette Vanish using cigarette clip on finger
 		152
Cardini Floating Cigarette thread, cigarette floats into clear tube
 		154
Lighted Cigarette from Box sight gag
 		156
Back and Front Hand Palming vanish and production with pivot
 		157
Back Palm
158
To Produce Card single card from back palm
 		160
To Produce Cards in a Fan from back palm
 		161
Paul Fox Simplified Back and Front Hand Palm
161
Production of Cards one at a time from Back of Hand two methods
 		162
Production of Cards one at a time from Front of Hand
163
To Vanish Cards one at a time and Reproduce them
165
Flash Card Production card produced from tambourine, using body load
 		167
Producing Fans of Cards split fan productions
 		170
The Phantom Pip picking up the pip... and putting it back on
 		172
Paul Fox Adding Cards to Back of Deck while front is exposed
 		174
Paul Fox Back Hand Color Change using back palm
 		174
Open Finger Color Change using clip palm
 		175
Slap Change
177
Push Up Color Change
178
Thumb Steal Color Change palm off can be used to produce fans (context), thumb palm
 		179
Double Card Change both on the deck
 		179
Charles A. Leedy Slip Up Color Change
Related to 180
Top Card Change - Method 1
181
Top Card Change - Method 2 different dynamic than method 1
 		182
Top Card Change - Method 3 old style with finger change
 		182
Top Card Change - Method 4 end grip
 		183
Modern Card Change variation with side jogged double
 		183
Single Hand Card Change toss change
 		184
Cardini Bottom Dealing - Method 1 mentioning of standard bottom deal effects
 		185
Bottom Dealing - Method 2
186
Audley Walsh Bottom Dealing - Method 3
187
Cardini Second Dealing - Method 1
189
Second Dealing - Method 2
Variations 190
Second Dealing - Method 3
191
Joe Berg Second Dealing - Method 4 end grip take
 		192
Second Dealing - Method 5 end grip take
 		193
Dealing Bottoms end grip take
 		193
The Ribbon Drop
194
The Cascade
194
Production of Cards from the Mouth
195
Cascade Production from Boy's Nose
196
Charlier The One-Handed Cut
196
Audley Walsh Any Name Called For mathematical placement, random names are spelled to, card found at last position
Also published here 199
Audley Walsh Ten Card Color Change
201
Richard Himber Double Detection magician determines facing cards in a by a spectator faced deck
Variations 205
Second From Bottom Glimpse
206
George G. Kaplan, Audley Walsh, Al Baker A Clever Card Discovery mathematical, based on Telephone Mystery
 		208
Al Baker, Audley Walsh Telephone Mystery
Variations 210
William H. McCaffrey Variation of the Telephone Mystery
Related to 211
E. J. Moore Prophetic Card Discovery a bit disguised
 		215
The Conjurer's Touch deck in performer's pocket, he produces any suit and value on command
Variations 218
Percy Abbott A Mysterious Discovery spectator removes x cards, magician finds card with value x, set-up
 		220
T. Nelson Downs Marvello transposition with extremely strange procedure, mathematical
 		223
Cardini Cardini's Rising Cards five cards, rubber band between two cards
 		229
Rising Deck From Card Case thread
 		234
Louis Tannen A Pack Full Of Pep deck from case, rubber
 		235
The Rising Cards and Card Case half the pack and case have holes
 		237
Keith Clark Rising Card from the Pocket from breast pocket
 		241
Rising Cards from Glass Goblet three cards, with loop moves, variation with assistant (page 249)
 		243
Al Baker Rising Cards from Goblet - Al Baker Method different hook up
 		249
Henry Gordien Rising Cards from Goblet - Henry Gordien Method different hook up
 		250
Howard Thurston Howard Thurston Rising Cards cards rise and float into hand
 		250
Paul Fox, Harlan Tarbell Superba Rising Cards four cards rise and float into hand
Related to 255
Howard Thurston Thurston's Floating Card card floats up and down, thread
 		257
Buatier de Kolta De Kolta Card Fountain all cards except one jump out of glass, thread
 		259
Harry Stork Harry Stork Card Fountain cards jump out of glass
 		261
Jean Hugard Jean Hugard's Card Fountain cards jump out of glass, thread
 		263
Tommy Dowd Tommy Dowd's Rising Cards cards rise while isolated in two glasses
 		265
Harlan Tarbell Humpty Dumpty Outdone spectator breaks egg in handkerchief
Also published here 269
Harlan Tarbell Tarbell's Unbreakable Egg spectator breaks egg in handkerchief
Also published here 274
Harlan Tarbell The Egg Bag long routine, "Tarbell Style" Egg Bag
 		277
Dante Egg Bag Presentation egg size varies according to how hard spectator blows, black egg when black person blows
Related to 278
Double Handkerchief
279
Percy Abbott "Fool-Zum" Egg Bag Routine
288
Billard Ball Manipulation hinge shell gimmick
 		293
Adam and Eve four ball production and vanish, longer routine with several sleights and shell
 		295
The Multiplying Golf Balls different design
 		306
Special Adjuncts for Ball Manipulators body load holder for balls
 		307
Rainbow Billiard Balls rainbow chicagoer routine
 		308
A Mysterious Ball Transposition two balls in silk and glass goblets transpose
 		313
The Handkerchief Ball universal gimmick with loop, handwashing displays
 		317
Eugene Laurant, Buatier de Kolta, Servais LeRoy Soup Plate and Handkerchiefs two silks disappear and reappear under soup plate on chair
 		322
Two Soup Plates and Handkerchiefs two silks vanish and reappear between soup plates
Related to 325
Twentieth Century Silks
327
Handkerchief to Billiard Ball hollow ball
 		331
Bert Douglas The Elusive Rainbow 20th century silks with knot placed in mouth, then ball appears and travels into mouth
 		333
Bert Douglas Spot The Red 20th century silks with knot placed in mouth, then ball appears and travels into mouth
 		337
Harlan Tarbell Type of Rope used
339
Milbourne Christopher Christopher's Three Knots in a Rope three knots appear, one disappears, one is untied, one is taken off
 		339
Milbourne Christopher Christopher's Jumping Knot knot jumpes from one position on rope to another
 		342
Louis Tannen Tannen's Ring, Knot and Rope borrowed finger ring travels from handkerchief in knot on rope
Variations 344
Milbourne Christopher Christopher's Thread to Rope thin thread changes visibly into rope
 		347
Self-Untying Rope thread
 		349
Milbourne Christopher Christopher's Cigarette to Rope
  • Version 1
  • Version 2
  • Version 3
Related to 349
The Phantom Knot disappearing knot
 		353
Hindu Knots knots appear and disappear
 		355
Chefalo Chefalo's Knot disappearing knot
 		358
Harlan Tarbell, Chefalo Tarbell's Triple Chefalo Knot disappearing knots
 		358
Hocus Pocus" Cut and Restored Rope"x
359
A Novel Knot Steal knot with small extra piece is secretly stolen from rope
 		362
Magician's Cut and Restored Rope
363
Perplexo Cut and Restored Rope
366
Richard Himber Himber's Rope Mytersy
367
Ted Collings Ted Collin's Panama Rope Mystery
368
Syl Reilly Ghostly Card in the Dark card image appears in dark room, luminous paint
 		373
Syl Reilly Date on a Borrowed Coin date appears as image in dark room, luminous paint
 		375
Syl Reilly A Selected Word word appears as image in dark room, luminous paint
 		375
Syl Reilly Spirit Answers word appears as image in dark room, luminous paint
 		375
Syl Reilly The Phantom Die chosen number divined, luminous paint
 		376
Syl Reilly The Magazine Test clever, luminous paint
 		376
Syl Reilly The Phantom Tray chosen object is determined, luminous paint
 		378
Syl Reilly "Ghostlite" in the Dark Seance The Evil Eye, Spooky Lights, Apparitions of Spirit Articles, Ghostly Faces, Ectoplasm, Ghost Materialization, using luminous paint
 		379
Edward Saint Spirit Lights under Test Conditions seance style, luminous paint
 		383
The Mystery of King Tut two persons change place
 		387
Who and Which two persons change place
 		395
Who and Which (Simple Method) two persons change place
 		401
Three Kings and a Queen person appears in paravent
 		403
Karl Fulves The Optical Force (chapter 33-A added to 1975 edition, see "13 Prophets", p. 20)
two spectators choose cards: mates
Variations 408
Karl Fulves Demon Digits calculation procedure, result predicted
 		409
Karl Fulves Ultra Die strange card prediction, chosen by rolling a die
 		410
Karl Fulves The Folded Prophecy nail writer, through envelope, carbon paper
 		412
Karl Fulves, Don Nielson Liars Convention magician blindfolded, three spectators choose cards two exchange cards, magicican knows who and the cards, marked stacked deck
 		412
Karl Fulves Clocks and Cards clock time duplication, then drawn card is found by medium
 		414
Karl Fulves, J. W. Sarles Roughing it mental reverse variant
 		416
Data entered by Denis Behr, July 2005.