Zombie

38 entries in Ball / Floatation / Zombie
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Jack Yeager Glorifying Your Magic
  • 1. Califaction of Handkerchiefs (silks in dove pan merge together)
  • 2. How to spell trust? (oddity on coin)
  • 3. Key Card Placement (Charlier Pass)
  • 4. 20th Century Silks idea
  • 5. Zombie Idea (floating flower pot)
  • 6. Comedy bits with a stooge
  • 7. Miser's Dream Shower (with handkerchief)
  • 8. Thumb Tip Idea (with scotch tape)
  • 9. Thimble color change
  • 10. The cotton bunny (cotton bunny to real one, dove pan)
 		1948
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1948)
12
Fitch Cheney Zombieeque with wooden ring as proof
 		Sep. 1949
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 7 No. 4)
581
Karrell Fox Impromptu Zombie floating roll, fork
 		Feb. 1954
The New Phoenix (Issue 301)
3
Jesse J. Langston Jr. Zombie zombie with big billiard ball
 		Aug. 1954
The New Phoenix (Issue 313)
55
Charly Eperny Kleine Experimente... Grosse Wirkung ghost in box, starts to levitate from box under handkerchief and answers questions, Zombie principle
 		1959
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 20 No. 4)
847
Henry Durkin Trickettes various ideas
  • A Clock Production
  • Zombie Flash Finish
  • Hypnotic Revelation
 		1960
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1960)
48
Allessandro Miracle Ball Christmas themed
 		1964
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1963-64)
38
John F. Mendoza The Zombie by John (aka Carendi, Our Teen Age Contribution), ball floats through a ring inside a hat and disappears
 		1964
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1963-64)
52
Karl Fulves, Aaron Wainer Three Bottles
  • tobacco and paper dropped in bottle and shake, transforms into cigarette
  • cork pops off second bottle after moving up and down (a la Zombie)
  • whistling in third bottle, bottle whistles by itself afterwards, see p. 308 for reference
Related to Dec. 1969
The Pallbearers Review Vol. 5-8 (Vol. 5 No. 2)
303
Theo "Okito" Bamberg, Joe Berg Zombie Cabinet cabinet for Zombie ball, ball vanishes eventually or changes into a skull
 		1973
The Oriental Magic of the Bambergs
87
Richard Merry, George Mackenzie Humoristische Vortragssplitter und Magische Gags various gags
  • Begrüßung
  • Freiwillige Helfer
  • Geld (Münzfang)
  • Handguillotine
  • Kopfguillotine
  • Karten
  • Mentalmagie
  • Schwebeeffekte (Sambakugel)
  • Seile
  • Verschiedenes
  • Wenn das Weihnachtsfest vorbei ist
  • Zauberstab
  • Zigaretten
Also published here
  • The Gen & Genii
 Nov. 1975
Intermagic (Vol. 3 No. 1 & 2)
24
Lewis Ganson Introduction
1977
Zombie — The Floating Ball
4
Lewis Ganson Supreme Moves
  • Requirements
  • Set-Up - The Get-Ready
  • The Ball Rises
  • The Ball Rises into View
  • The Ball Floats along the Arm
  • Around the Body
  • The Ball Suspends on the Cloth
  • The Ball 'Bounces' on the Cloth - A Routine
 		1977
Zombie — The Floating Ball
5
Luis Gavilondo The Gavilondo Start and Finish
1977
Zombie — The Floating Ball
11
Will Ayling Will Ayling's Zombie Routine
  • The Apparatus
  • The Routine
  • The Start
  • The Ball Comes to Life
  • The Ball on the Arm
  • The Cradle
  • The Ball on the Edge of the Cloth
  • The Hoop around the Ball
  • The Ball around the Body
  • The Ball Moves along the Cloth
  • The Ball Floats
  • The Finish
 		1977
Zombie — The Floating Ball
13
Luis Gavilondo The Sacred Sun Ball
  • The Entrance
  • Attaching the Gimmick
  • The Ball Vanishes
  • The Ball Re-Appears
  • Showing Both Sides of the Cloth
  • The Ball on the Elbow
  • The Ball on the Knee
  • The Ball Floats - Climax
 		1977
Zombie — The Floating Ball
21
Luis Gavilondo Additinal Sequence for a Zombie Routine
1977
Zombie — The Floating Ball
29
Luis Gavilondo 'Wrong Side' Ball Appearance
1977
Zombie — The Floating Ball
33
Don England The Upper Deck cased deck floats underneath silk Zombie like, then vanishes from case except for selection
 		1981
Don England's T.K.O.'s (Issue Hearts)
1
Al Schneider Props
  • the ball and gimmick
  • the cloth
  • your clothes - lighting - manipulating the wire - holding the cloth
 		1981
Al Schneider On Zombie
15
Al Schneider Theory on the floatation of a Zombie
 		1981
Al Schneider On Zombie
29
Al Schneider Drills movements for practicing the Zombie
 		1981
Al Schneider On Zombie
37
Al Schneider The Routine
  • prepare the ball for performance
  • starting the routine
  • the main part of the routine
  • final sequence of routine
 		1981
Al Schneider On Zombie
47
Al Schneider Summary & Patter for Zombie
 		1981
Al Schneider On Zombie
87
Neville Wiltshire Zombie Cube effect suggestion
 		1982
The Magic of the Cube
11
George McAthy, Peter Wilker Die Geburt einer Idee match levitation behind interlocked hands, with notes on Zombie and Square and Circle by Wilker
 		1982
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 43 No. 6)
144
Rhett Bryson, John Riggs Zombie gag, bald head zombie
 		1987
The Trapdoor — Volume One (Issue 20)
340
Karl Fulves Spooky Spoon No. 43, zombie principle to levitate a spoon with a secretly attached fork behind handkerchief
 		1988
Self-Working Handkerchief Magic
124
Tommy Wonder Thoughts In Mid-Air essay on Zombie and on floating
 		1991
Square One
41
Harald Kurz Z - Zombie using third hand
 		1991
Hardcore
38
Don Nielsen Impromptu Topit shirt in inside jacket pocket configuration, gag to produce the Zombie gimmick
Related to 1994
Rigmarole (Issue 6)
63
Tommy Wonder Thoughts in Mid-Air essay on the Zombie
  • Presentation
  • What is Levitation?
  • The Routine
  • The Acting
  • The Test
  • There's Nothing Wrong with Zombie
 		1996
The Books of Wonder — Volume 2
255
Tommy Wonder Animating a Zombie
1996
The Books of Wonder — Volume 2
260
Michael Ammar Impromptu Roll Floater bread roll floats à la Zombie
 		Feb. 2001
Magic (Vol. 10 No. 6)
74
John Bundy Halloween Zombie Halloween themed Zombie with haunted house
 		Oct. 2001
Magic (Vol. 11 No. 2)
76
John Dixon Floating M&M Doll themed Zombie routine
 		June 2003
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 10)
88
Rising Bread bread zombie
 		2011
Mr. Mysto's Wizard Academy
54
John Graham Lemon Zombie knife stuck in lemon
 		2021
Stage by Stage
277