Here's a great trick that has been around for a while, and is based on some simple concepts. You'll need to do a bit of set up for this, but the astonishment you will create will easily make it worth it. You can do this as the first trick in a set, in between a bunch of other illusions, or even a a standalone gag to play on your friends at a bar or a party.
Here's how the trick will develop to your soon to be astonished friends. You pull out a folded bill, and lay it on the table. You tell some long elaborate tale about how money was fashioned out of some secret bond between man and the gods of long ago, and you only need to know how to tap into its special powers to control money with your mind. So long as you include magic, history, and metaphysics, you'll be sure to have their interest. As soon as you have your audiences attention, you perform the magic.
You hold your left hand out, and hold the edge of the bill flat against the table. Then you can burble some secret magic words from Atlantis or something (or must make them up,) and project your powerful clairvoyant energy on the riches. After a few moments, the bill will start to fold up on itself, first once, then twice. After your friends are thoroughly shocked, merely pick up the bill, place it in your pocket and carry on with whatever conversation you were having before the illusion.
Here's the trick. The way to make the bill fold is to first get ready it with a piece of tape, and a piece of long thin, thread. You'll need to fold the bill a few times so it knows where to fold when the time comes. You take a needle, and push the thread through the bill, and attach it to the other side. You really run the thread through the bill in two places. So if the bill is laying flat, the thread will come up underneath one half, and go through the second half, and be securely taped to the bottom, so they won't see the tape.
Then you have the thread coming out of the hole (the non taped end) and have it run through your pocket or sleeve, and looped around one of your fingers. For example, if you are holding the bill on the table with your left hand, as you move your right hand away from your body, it will pull the bill in on itself, giving the illusion that it is folding itself. This takes some practice to set up, but after a few tries at home, you'll be able to set this up in no time.
Of course, like with any other trick, the buildup is important as well, as removing any evidence as soon as the illusion is completed. One thing you can do is to have an identical bill in your pocket, that's been folded the same way to show to your friends. So when you pick up the trick bill, you can put it in your pocket and quickly switch it with a normal bill should your friends ask to inspect it. This trick gets great results when sitting around chewing the fat with your buddies over a couple of cold ones, or you can do this in a regular magic show. Have fun. - 31879
Here's how the trick will develop to your soon to be astonished friends. You pull out a folded bill, and lay it on the table. You tell some long elaborate tale about how money was fashioned out of some secret bond between man and the gods of long ago, and you only need to know how to tap into its special powers to control money with your mind. So long as you include magic, history, and metaphysics, you'll be sure to have their interest. As soon as you have your audiences attention, you perform the magic.
You hold your left hand out, and hold the edge of the bill flat against the table. Then you can burble some secret magic words from Atlantis or something (or must make them up,) and project your powerful clairvoyant energy on the riches. After a few moments, the bill will start to fold up on itself, first once, then twice. After your friends are thoroughly shocked, merely pick up the bill, place it in your pocket and carry on with whatever conversation you were having before the illusion.
Here's the trick. The way to make the bill fold is to first get ready it with a piece of tape, and a piece of long thin, thread. You'll need to fold the bill a few times so it knows where to fold when the time comes. You take a needle, and push the thread through the bill, and attach it to the other side. You really run the thread through the bill in two places. So if the bill is laying flat, the thread will come up underneath one half, and go through the second half, and be securely taped to the bottom, so they won't see the tape.
Then you have the thread coming out of the hole (the non taped end) and have it run through your pocket or sleeve, and looped around one of your fingers. For example, if you are holding the bill on the table with your left hand, as you move your right hand away from your body, it will pull the bill in on itself, giving the illusion that it is folding itself. This takes some practice to set up, but after a few tries at home, you'll be able to set this up in no time.
Of course, like with any other trick, the buildup is important as well, as removing any evidence as soon as the illusion is completed. One thing you can do is to have an identical bill in your pocket, that's been folded the same way to show to your friends. So when you pick up the trick bill, you can put it in your pocket and quickly switch it with a normal bill should your friends ask to inspect it. This trick gets great results when sitting around chewing the fat with your buddies over a couple of cold ones, or you can do this in a regular magic show. Have fun. - 31879
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