Tarbell Course in Magic - Volume 021 - Wands

The basics of magic

Hat, rabbit, and magic wand are the three objects commonly associated with a magician. This lesson focuses on the magic wand and demonstrates the diverse possibilities this prop offers its owner.

The magic wand has always been used to distract the audience by making objects disappear, appear, or swap them. For this purpose, it is picked up and later put down, helping the performer, for example, to keep an object hidden in their hand.

 There are also a whole range of specially prepared magic wands that make very different effects possible.

 Harlan Tarbell introduces you to the most well-known versions. Magic wands that are not only waved in the hand to enchant other objects, but can also disappear, appear, levitate, ascend, grow, penetrate, and much more. You'll learn about the famous Petrie-Lewis wand, how to make a chosen card appear from an egg, and be initiated into the secret of how to make playing cards seemingly ascend on their own simply by tapping them with the wand.

 44 pages