Dr. Spencer Thornton

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Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Thorntonism	people write information on different billets, selected one is divined, method to switch billets with a magazine		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	1	Billet / Switches Mental Magic / Effects / Divination
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Other Thorntonism Ideas	for a serial number divination, switching playing cards and appearance of a message		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	2	Paper / Appearing Writing, Photos, ... Book / Miscellaneous Bill / Number-Reading
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Pulse Control	slow down, speed up and eventually stop the pulse, method without gimmick		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	2	Propless / Fakir Stuff Propless / Body Magic
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Thornton's Impossible Book Test	book test, with playing card to chose the page		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	4	Book / Book Test / Routines
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Direction of Thought	business cards with ESP symbols on one side are put on the table, spectator draws symbols on other side, they match perfectly		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	5	Business Cards ESP Cards / Matching
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Precognition	number prediction on slate, out to lunch principle		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	7	Numbers / Prediction & Sum-Divination Paper / Out to Lunch
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Mind Over Mind	chosen symbol is predicted in a clip, bulldog clip to switch billet		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	8	Billet / Prediction Billet / Switches Billet / Index Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Other Ideas for the Gimmick Clip	Par X Prediction (number prediction) Variations		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	10	Billet / Prediction Numbers / Prediction & Sum-Divination Mental Magic / Principles / Pocket Writing
Dr. Spencer Thornton	The Sensitive Touch	spectators write billets with names of american and foreign cities, wand points automatically to several billets and divides the american cities from the foreign ones		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	11	Wand & Stick / Animation Mental Magic / Effects / Living and Dead Test Billet / Miscellaneous
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Mental Three Shell Game	object under one of three cups		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	12	Mental Magic / Effects / Locating hidden Objects Games / Instruction Games
Dr. Spencer Thornton	I'll Read Your Mind	several magazines		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	13	Book / Book Test / Magazine Test
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Anytime, Anywhere - For Newspaper Publicity	prediction of personal information is written in front of a person, put in an envelope and mailed to the spectator		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	14	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / By Mail
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Futuramic Headline Prediction	prediction mailed		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	16	Newspaper / Headline Prediction Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / By Mail
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Minds In Unison	a city and an auto license plate are selected, they match and were predicted too		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	18	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Rough and Smooth Decks / Miscellaneous
Dr. Spencer Thornton	The Mentalist's Pencil	performer leaves the room and three cards are selected and hidden, all cards are divined		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	20	Cards / Principles / Stooge Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Coding / Using Assistant
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Initial Psychometry	three spectator select a card and sign their name on a paper, performer in other room looks at the names and divines the cards		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	21	Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Miscellaneous Cards / Principles / Coding / Using Assistant Cards / Principles / Assistant
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Mind to Mind	medium blindfolded, performer walks around touching people and object everything is correctly described		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	21	Mental Magic / Effects / Two Person Telepathy
Dr. Spencer Thornton	The Pocket Writer	model of a pocket writer		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	24	Mental Magic / Principles / Pocket Writing
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Two Man Mentalism	medium divines three selected card		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	24	Mental Magic / Principles / Pocket Writing Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / by Assistant
Dr. Spencer Thornton	The Diminishing Mirror			1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	25	Mirror
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Transmission by Contact	divination of drawing, slate		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	25	Mirror Mental Magic / Effects / Divination
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Magnetic Fingers	objects stick to the hand		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	26	Mental Magic / Effects / Special Powers
Dr. Spencer Thornton	The Locator Card	locator card with a thread		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	26	Cards / Principles / Locator Cards / Other Work
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Using Your Bottomless Glass	prediction of a card put in a glass and covered by a handkerchief		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	26	Cards / Effect Themes / Prediction / Single Card Mental Magic / Principles / Pocket Writing Glass / Bottomless Glass
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Putting Your One Way Forcing Deck to Use - Simultaneous Discovery-Book Test			1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	27	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Book / Book Test / Routines
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Free Choice	with a fanned deck, three cards chosen and divined		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	27	Cards / Gaffed Cards & Decks / Deck / Forcing Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Divination & Mind Reading / Tossed Out Deck
Dr. Spencer Thornton	The Exchange Tray			1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	27	Book / Miscellaneous Apparatus / Miscellaneous
Dr. Spencer Thornton	The Mystery of the Keys	keys sealed in envelopes		1958	Thornton's Secrets of Mental Magic	28	Key / Seven Keys to Baldpate
Dr. Spencer Thornton	The Fantastic Bill Transposition	bill vanishes from handkerchief and appears inside envelope, using Corinda Billet Pencil		1959	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1959)	15	Bill / Traveling / Impossible Location / Miscellaneous Pen & Pencil / Miscellaneous
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Coincimental	performer and spectator select cards from a deck with alphabet cards, they both have the same letters and form the same word		1959	Card Tricks	330	Mental Magic / Effects / Coincidence ABC Cards / Matching
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Alphabetical Perception	one of several books is selected and a word remembered, performer divines the word with ABC cards		1959	More Miracles in Mentalism	11	ABC Cards / Divination Book / Book Test / Routines
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Serial Number Telepathy	one of five collected bills is selected and the serial number divined		1959	More Miracles in Mentalism	12	Bill / Number-Reading Apparatus / Changing & Switching Devices
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Serial Number Duplication	preparing bills, so they have the same serial number		1959	More Miracles in Mentalism	12	Bill / Miscellaneous
Dr. Spencer Thornton	Predicted Action	prediction of any actions a performer wants to perform in front of the audience		1961	Still More Miracles in Mentalism	36	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Pen & Pencil / Nail Writer & Swami
David Hoy, Dr. Spencer Thornton	Hurling the Headlines	headline prediction, verbally	Related to The Amazing Criswell (Robert Cassidy, 2013) Variations Astro-Logic! (Bascom Jones, 1972)	1963	The Bold and Subtle Miracles of Dr. Faust	29	Newspaper / Prediction
Bascom Jones	Astro-Logic!	naming Zodiac signs and asking questions	Inspired by Hurling the Headlines (David Hoy, Dr. Spencer Thornton, 1963) Variations Astro-Logic (Paul Vigil, Bascom Jones, 2017)	1972	Magick (Issue 63)	312	Mental Magic / Effects / Q&A Mental Magic / Principles / Cold Reading Mental Magic / Effects / Readings (Cold, Crystal, Hand, Tarot etc.)
Dr. Spencer Thornton	In the Bag...	pseudo-psychometry with paper bags, apparently same marking system was also used by Dr. Jaks		1975	Magick (Issue 119)	592	Mental Magic / Effects / Psychometry Effects Mental Magic / Principles / Marking Systems

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