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I am very interested in reading about ghostly stories and spirits etc. A couple of years ago I heard about a story which is apparently true, about a murder which was solved from the grave.
This happened in the UK.
A woman in her twenties always believed she had special powers of being able to have contact with the spiritual world, however she did not want these powers and she certianly had never told anybody else about it. For the purpose of this article, I will call the lady Sue.
One evening about five miles away from where Sue lived, another young lady who I will call Lisa, was brutally murdered by somebody she had never met before.
Sue and Lisa had never met.
As you may be aware, the police find it harder to solve murder cases where the victim is unknown to their killer. These types of murder are also quite rare.
Later that evening Sue was awaken by a noise in her bedroom. As she sat up there was a woman on her bed sobbing, it was Lisa. Sue who was strangely quite calm asked her, who she was, why she was crying and why she was in her bedroom.
Sue who was obviously shocked, asked how she could help her.
“I want to tell you what has happened to me and I want to describe the killer to you. I then want you to go to the police station tommorrow to tell them what I have told you. This will help them to find the killer, then I will be able to rest in peace.”
Sue reluctantly agreed and Lisa disappeared.
Sue did go to the police and described the killer, telling them many things about him, including that he had a tattoo on his arm with the words “crazy fox” on.
The police did not take her as a serious witness, even though they found it strange that she seemed to know so much about the killing itself.
The murder itself went unsolved for twenty years, until a man was arrested for drunk driving. The police took his DNA and it was matched to the murder of Lisa.
Have a guess what he had tattoed on his arm, “crazy fox”.
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Easy Does It - Small-Scale Tricks to Dazzle Your Audience
by: Chris Lloyd
How to Get Started If You’re a Beginner
Whether you’ve been practicing magic for two days, two
years, or twenty, the only effective magic trick is one
that actually “fools” your audience. This ability to create
a good illusion depends in huge part on one thing:
rehearsing!
Let’s face it-no matter how great a trick is or how useful
a magic prop is, you won’t surprise or delight anyone
unless it’s performed smoothly and confidently. What if you
drop your deck of cards or accidentally mishandle a coin?
The illusion will be destroyed, and you’ll have lost your
audience’s trust.
When you’re just starting out it’s understandable that
you’ll have to practice in front of an audience several
times before you get it just right. No one expects you to
be perfect right away. But you also can’t expect to fool
anyone unless you put in the time to practice your skills
and work with your props (if you are using any).
The tricks in this chapter were chosen because they are
simple, effective, fun to perform, and appealing to just
about any audience. You can delight a crowd of
schoolchildren with them, or you can test them out on
adults. But before you do, practice, practice, practice to
get it right!
For now, let’s cut straight to the chase and talk more
specifically about these simple yet stunning tricks. Then,
at the end of this chapter I’ll give you some highly
effective strategies and techniques I used when I was just
starting out!
Sleight of Hand
What exactly is sleight (pronounced “slite”) of hand? This
term refers to a broad category of magic tricks that relies
on your skills and techniques as well as the facility of
your fingers and hands. In other words, these are tricks
that depend on your skill and dexterity to fool the
audience, much more so than on props or gimmicks. It’s your
fingers that do the work, not a manufacturer’s product.
Another way of saying all this is that a sleight of hand
is a trick that is performed so well and so deftly that the
audience can’t tell precisely how it was done!
There’s a great word for this that every magician should
know: “legerdemain.” This word comes to us from the old
French phrase “leger de main,” in which “leger” translates
as light, and “de main” means “of hand.” So if you perform
with a light touch, that’s the ideal form of legerdemain.
This deftness applies to most magic tricks, though, not
just sleight of hand! In fact, most of tricks we’re going
to discuss involve sleight of hand, from shuffling cards to
palming coins. Even levitation, which we’ll discuss in
Chapter 4, involves sleight of hand-although that’s more
like “sleight of foot!”
Just keep in mind that accomplishing many of the following
tricks successfully involves not just a working knowledge
of the techniques but also the ability to carry them out
easily and without a lot of obvious effort. Another good
reason to get in as much practice as you can!
This article was extracted from the book ‘Discover The Magic
Trick Secrets You’re Not Supposed To Know’.
To find out more please visit
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