Columnist: Banachek Lucky Number This first appeared in the late Bascom Jones’ Magick Magazine. This routine came to me about four o’clock in the morning one night. The time that most good ideas come to me. I was pondering the reason an old effect worked. The one where you have someone secretly pick a number […]
Columnist: Banachek Lorayne’s Buck A borrowed dollar bill is folded and placed in an envelope and laid out in a row with three other envelopes. The mentalist turns his back and the spectator freely moves the envelopes about. Under these conditions, with his back turned, the mentalist eliminates all of the other envelopes leaving the […]
Columnist: Banachek Here is an effect for you that I came up with around 78 or so. It is not very deceptive on its own, but if utilized amongst some other stuff and quickly followed by something else it will blow them away. I will give you one of the cards and Homynoms, I have […]
Columnist: Banachek GEORGE & BILL This first appeared in Bascom’s Magick Experiment with this strange of-the-wall concept. You’ll find it can be employed as close-up as well as stage presentations. “As most school-children know” you begin, “Abraham Lincoln was known as Honest Abe. Yet, he was not the most honest president we ever had. “That […]
Columnist: Banachek Funny Incidents in Magic This column is not going to be about mentalism, or me for that matter. It’s going to be about funny incidents in magic. Often I tell these supposedly true stories and people will end up choking on their food or spewing their milk or coffee from their nose. So […]
Columnist: Banachek ON 21 Feb 97, I posted the following on another limited Network. With the recent discussion of Koran’s Medalion in the Mentalism section, I thought it might be of interest here. For a full presentation of “Room Service”, pick up a copy of T. A. Waters, Mind, Myth & Magic. For the last […]
Columnist: Banachek Permission for me to share this article was kindly given to me by Bev Bergeron. It certainly shows the showmanship of some performers and how they can always seen to grab the spotlight. BLINDFOLD DRIVE TO DALLAS The year was 1959 and the month was September – that time of year when the […]
Columnist: Banachek This is an effect I use to use for walk around. If you are interested in a Dr. Jaks type effect that uses a very beautiful looking prop, read on. I’m not going to give you my exact patter but this is how the effect usually looks: Performer starts out. “I have been […]
Columnist: Banachek Think a Month This first appeared in the late Bascom Jones’ Magick Magazine. This routine came to me about four o’clock in the morning one night. The time that most good ideas come to me. I was pondering the reason an old effect worked. The one where you have someone secretly pick a […]
Columnist: Banachek This effect has it’s roots in an Eddie Joseph effect titled “Psychic Identification” in his magazine “Swami.” I lay no rights to the method at all. I am only giving you my presentation. The original is a wonderful impromptu effect performed in person. I have adapted it to the telephone. I call it: […]
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