INDEX.

PAGE

Bags, trick,98

Balance illusion,143

Balancing tricks,117

Bandage test,86

Blindfolded juggler,121

Blotter trick,17

Bottle, miraculous,130

Cabinet test,108

Cabinet, the trick,109

Card balancing,119

Carpet, slitted,29

Chair and net test,108

Chalk, writing on,60

Chalks, writing with colored,36

Confederates,107

Cricket, card,139

Cuff, leather,73

Cupid lighter than a butterfly,143

Davenport tie,88

Double slate,32-41

Eddy Brothers, séances,101

Egg glass, use of,55

Eggs, spinning,118

Fay’s séances,103

Finger, prepared,19

Flap, false,21-38

Flap, interrupted,48

Fly, educated,62

Folding slate,33

Hands, holding,28

Handcuff test,96

Head, mermaid’s,136

Hinges, false,39

Hook for table raising,74

Inks, sympathetic,11-17

Interrupted flap,48

Juggler, blindfolded,121

Light séances,101

Loop, double,92

Magician’s omelette,115

Magnetic writing,34

Mind reading and kindred phenomena,51-71

Mirrors, reading writing by,47

Miscellaneous slate tests,41-51

Miscellaneous tricks,115-146

Omelette, magician’s,115

Pad, transferring to,20

Pen, surprise,125

Pencil carrier, thumb,52

Pencil, silver nitrate,44

Pencil thimble,18

Photography, spirit,113

Pistol loaded with chalk,41

Post tests, etc,93-100

Post test, mechanical,94

Post test, ordinary,93

Potato cutting,120

Raps, spirit,81

Ring test,96

Rods and cords, Chinese,123

Rope test,82

Séance, spiritualistic,76

Séances,101-114

Silica slate,6

Silk flap,5

Silver nitrate pencil,44

Single slate,3-32

Slade, Dr.,105

Slate, double,32-41

Slates exchanged,30

Slate, folding,33

Slate writing on china,8

Slates, locked,36

Slate tests, multiple,38

Slates, padlocked,32

Slates, pivot,26

Slates, riveted,24

Slates, screwed,24

Slates, scaled,34

Slates, sliding,33

Slates, tied,22

Slates, transferring,37

Slates, wedging,24

Slates with false hinges,39

Sliding slates,33

Spinning tricks,117

Spirit collar,97

Stencil, wood,42

Sucker for table lifting,72

Sympathetic ink writing,9

Table, false,10

Table lifting and spirit rapping,71-82

Table, traps in,25, 26

Table trick,47

Telegraph,77

Telegraph, foot,66

Telegraph head,68

Thimble key,36

Thimble pencil,18

Thumb pencil carrier,52

Tie, Davenport,88

Ties, rope,85

Ties, spiritualistic,82-92

Toes, writing with the,45

Traps,106

Tube, speaking,67

Vase, miraculous,132

Wine glass, miraculous,128

Wire cage test,110

Wire, cloth,61

Writing, reading concealed,51-58

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