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The Magician (I), from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. The Magician (I), also known as The Magus or The Juggler, is the first trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks. It is used in game playing and divination. Within the card game context, the equivalent is the Pagat which is the lowest trump card, also known as the atouts or ...
Juan Tamariz-Martel Negrón (born 18 October 1942) is a Spanish magician.. Tamariz is considered to have pionereed close-up card magic.American stage magician Ricky Jay once said he considered him to be a magician people will remember, [1] and he was referred to as "the greatest and most influential card magician alive" by David Blaine. [2]
The act involved a variation of the magician's billet reading trick: divining the answer to a question written on a card sealed inside one of the envelopes, announcing it to the audience, then tearing open the envelope to reveal the question. The comedy came from an unexpected question following a seemingly straightforward answer.
In June 2006, the first in-depth biography of Vernon was released by Squash Publishing entitled Dai Vernon: A Biography, *Artist * Magician * Muse (Vol. 1: 1894-1941) [10] (first of planned two volumes) written by Canadian magician David Ben. A 1999 documentary was released entitled Dai Vernon: The Spirit Of Magic. [11]
He added the "Rising Cards" trick from Professor Hoffman's Modern Magic, the book from which Thurston had learned the rudiments of magic. For this trick, he would walk into the audience and ask several people to choose cards from a deck of cards. The deck was shuffled and placed into a clear glass. Thurston would then call for the chosen cards.
The spectator, having seen the magician pass the selected card, assumes that the performer refers to the next card on top of the deck and believes that the magician will fail the trick. [2] The performer will at this point offer to wager a sum of money that the next card they turn over will indeed be the spectator's.
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He was a good friend to many notables in the magic community including Harry Houdini, Francis Martinka and Tony Slydini. [7] He maintained a lifelong friendship with author of The Shadow , Walter B. Gibson , who guest wrote or cowrote a number of books for Dunninger on magic, psychic phenomena and spiritualism. [ 8 ]