The 13 Steps to Mental Magic | Corinda

This complete course in mental magic is considered the best work of its kind worldwide.

It was written by the famous English mentalist Corinda, translated into German and revised by Rudolf Braunmüller. The thirteen chapters cover the following topics:

1. Swami Gimmick: Detailed discussion of the nail or thumb pen with various special techniques and 30 effects.
2. Pencil, lip, sound, emotion and muscle reading: Methods that give the impression of real mind reading.
3. Mnemonics and mental systems: Memorizing 30 words thrown from the audience, magic squares, chess tricks (including the knight's move featured on Wetten Dass..?), naming the day of the week for each date, card laying systems, mnemonic number codes, etc.
4. Predictions and Prophecies: A variety of methods designed to seemingly predict future events.
5. Blindfolds and X-ray eyes: Mental tricks with blindfolds, trick blindfolds, reflectors, etc. Also, Joe Elman's complete "Sightless Vision" routine and 12 super blind effects.
6. Paper tricks: Methods for secretly reading notes written and folded by spectators. Plus eight effects.
7. Book tests: A total of 10 tricks, many of which are sensational. Plus an interview with Maurice Vogel, arguably the most famous English mentalist of the 20th century.
8. Two Person Telepathy: Secret speech and other codes that enable you to secretly transmit objects handed to you by the audience to your medium, who sits blindfolded on stage. You and your partner rehearsed one of these routines within an hour.
9. Experiments with a medium: A whole bunch of tricks where you appear not as a magician, but as a psychic person in touch with the "spirit world." 24 effects and routines (including "The Cabinet of Spirits") for performance in front of friends, at parties, and on stage.
10. Mental effects with cards: A special work on "Card Magic in Mental Magic," that is, on card tricks that give the impression of being performed through "extrasensory perception." A total of 19 effects, many of truly incredible power.
11. Questions and their answers: This is about so-called "cold reading," that is, how to answer audience questions in the most comprehensive and effective way possible. This is the stuff that made Erik Jan Hanussen, Dunninger, and Kreskin famous.
12. Newspaper and advertising experiments: Here you will learn how to make as much money as possible from performances, marketing, clients, how to get the public media to cover you, sensationalist tricks, etc.
13. Lecture and presentation: It covers the two most important aspects of magic for those who primarily want to entertain their audience. You'll learn the art of creating your own presentations, which tricks are suitable, and much more. This booklet also contains an index to the entire "13 Stages."

456 pages DIN A4, spiral bound