How Many effects?

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How Many effects?

Postby Jon Allen » January 28th, 2004, 3:40 am

I am looking to find out how many magical effects there are. It seems there are various opinions as to what constitutes an 'effect'.

I have:

vanish
appearance
penetration
levitation
restoation
transformation
transposition
transportation
mind magic


What should be added or taken away?

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Re: How Many effects?

Postby Thomas Van Aken » January 28th, 2004, 5:13 am

In some ways, "transposition" and "transportation" are simply a combinaison of "apparence" and "disparition"...
I feel that an effect about creation of "impossible objects" can be added to the list, it is maybe only a variant of "transformation" but consider "Card Warp" for example...

Thomas

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Re: How Many effects?

Postby jimmycards » January 28th, 2004, 9:02 am

I seem to remember a book by Dariel Fritsge or something like that that also listed the possible effects. It might be in "The Card Expert Entertains".
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Re: How Many effects?

Postby Rennie » January 28th, 2004, 4:41 pm

Jim,
The Fitzkee book you are referring to is called "The Trick Brain" and very interesting reading it does not tell you effects it explains the way things work and the different type of magic effects so you can be creative.I believe the book is still available. Dariel Fitzkee was a fairly prolific writer.
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The effect is the important thing, how you achieve is not !!

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Re: How Many effects?

Postby Jacky Kahan » January 29th, 2004, 12:48 am

Hi,

Is floating considered as levitation?

Jacky

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Re: How Many effects?

Postby Dale Shrimpton » January 29th, 2004, 4:29 am

Originally posted by Jacky Kahan:
Hi,

Is floating considered as levitation?

Jacky
Not if you do it in your bath Jacky.
p.s.
Jon, will catch up with you at Eton soon.I am Looking forward to it.....
Dale

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Re: How Many effects?

Postby Jon Allen » January 29th, 2004, 7:23 am

Dale,

Through not studying to get to Eton has enabled me to finally make it to Eton!!!

See you there.

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Re: How Many effects?

Postby jimmycards » January 29th, 2004, 3:09 pm

Chapter Two of The Card Expert Entertains:

Fitzkee's idea's were:
1. materialize
2. disappear
3. transposition
4. transformation
5. penetration
6. restoration
7. animation
8. overcoming laes of gravity
9. attraction
10. sympathetic reaction
11. reststance to destruction
12. physical anomaly - denying natural physical laws
13. spectator failure
14. mind control
15. identication
16. thought reading
17. thought transmission
18. prediction
19. esp

This book has a 1948 copyright.
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Re: How Many effects?

Postby jimmycards » January 30th, 2004, 7:30 am

In chapter 4 of the same book mentioned above, Fitzkee breaks down what is believed to be 16 fundemental things to do with cards.
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