ANOTHER BOOK
"THEYDUIT" CENTER
TEAR
The premise
- THEY write their question. THEY tear up the
paper, and sometimes THEY burn the paper. Yet,
YOU have the information on what THEY have written
and destroyed. This is merely a "Foxy" variation
on the well known center tear principal of the
late mental genius TED ANNEMANN. The principal
being that a circle is drawn in the center of
the paper slip (as a focus spot, for their mind?).
If that paper is then folded into quarters and
torn once each way, the circled (or center)
part will still be in one piece and can be secretly
read by you to obtain the information. Previous
and torn once each way, the circled (or center)
part will still be in one piece and can be secretly
read by you to obtain the information. Previous
methods required that YOU do the tearing. In
my method, "theyduit".
Draw
a circle in the center of a square piece of
paper. The paper should be about three inches
by three inches. After the spectator writes
their question, symbol, or whatever, and has
folded the paper once each way, take the paper
from them, place it to your forehead and say,
"picture in your mind, a visualization of your
thoughts. As you're thinking of your thought,
I'd like you to tear this paper in half."
ANOTHER BOOK
Hold
the paper in your right hand as in figure one.
Have them take the paper in their right hand.
The only way they CAN take it is by the folded
center. After they tear it, you take both halves
back, one in each hand. Place the center part
on the front, facing you. Hand them the pieces
again as in figure two. THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN
TAKE IT, IS THE RIGHT WAY. Again they tear the
pieces in half, and again you take half of the
pieces in each hand. The torn center is now
on top of the pieces held in your left hand.
Have
the spectator hold out both hands, palms up.
As they are doing this, your left thumb slides
the torn center section from the face of the
pile into your left palm. This will leave the
rest of the pieces at your left fingertips and
your right fingertips. Drop all of these pieces
into the spectators hands (half in each), secretly
retaining the folded center section in your
left hand.
ANOTHER BOOK
Have
the spectator dump the right hand pieces into
their left hand, cup the hands together and
shake up all the pieces. As you give them these
directions, your left hand has unfolded the
center-section slip and clipped it between the
left hand first and second fingers as in the
photograph.
Here
you have cupped your hands to show them how
to 'peek' inside their hands. Which is exactly
what you do as you boldly read their message.
ANOTHER BOOK
Raise
your left hand and cup your right hand over
it as you say "peek between your hands, look
at the pieces and concentrate on what you've
written". As you are explaining and showing
them what to do, YOU PEEK INSIDE YOUR OWN CUPPED
HANDS AND READ THE INFORMATION FROM THE SLIP
FACING YOU. Separate your hands and close your
fists (which crumples the piece you just read)
and give them the information as part of a GOOD
cold reading. Then extend your right hand and
have them dump all of the pieces they hold into
it. You dump these into your left hand, on top
of the piece you have there, and dispose of
the whole mess in your pocket or the waste can.
This
is another example of straight-line mentalism.
The way you would do it IF YOU WERE A MENTALIST
FOR REAL!
"I appreciate
practical magic. 'Clever Like a Fox' has more
than its fair share... Modern stuff too and
that s important. Not only does it contain first-rate
magic but it's a 'fun: book to read too."
Graham
Reed.
Most
hecklers are like buttons, always popping off
at the wrong time.
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