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DESCRIPTION
A must-read for anyone who wants to entertain with card tricks or perform any other type of magic. Leech looks at the application of psychology to magic, the importance of misdirection and the ways it can be utilized, how best to fool people, why performers sometimes get nervous and how to overcome it, how to make people like you, and how to make your tricks become "magic" in the eyes of your audience. Concise and very well written (Leech was a professional journalist and PR man by trade). 24 pages, re-typeset.
Contents:
- OUR APPROACH
- APPROACH AS AN AID TO DECEPTION
- APPROACH AS AN AID TO GAINING CONFIDENCE
- NERVOUSNESS AND MISDIRECTION
- MENTAL MISDIRECTION
- VISUAL MISDIRECTION
- NATURALNESS IN MISDIRECTION
- CAUSE AND EFFECT
- TIME IN MISDIRECTION
- DECEPTION IN TIME
- NEGATIVE MISDIRECTION
- ACCIDENTAL MISDIRECTION
- ROUTINING
- DISPLAY SLEIGHTS
- SUCKER EFFECTS
- COVER FOR SLEIGHTS
