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(1997) by A1 Mann
EXCLUSIVES
Part III
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ARIES RAM 3/21/18. Kind, sympathetic, keen, independent, jealous, impulsive, spendthrift, marry slowly, strong will power, hate criticism, like music & art, June, July, Tuesday. Red, crimson, rose, ruby.
It is with the greatest of pleasure that I write the following Arcane Secrets. I stumbled onto these secrets so I can easily say that these have never appeared in print before. As per AME standards, this is something refreshingly new under the Sun. Any Mentalist in possesion of these secrets can baffle anyone silly.
If you are wonde~lng wh~t the fat lady above ls. Rest easy, she 1s the Devll's Advocate and she 1s pregnant.
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VOICES FROM HADES Modesty be dammned again, dear reader. What I am about to put to writing is simply Great. We can thank mother nature for it. For it was mother nature who gave me the idea. Once a week I must take the trash out and dump it into my barbeque pit in my back yard and burn it. My community will not allow unattended fires, so I have to stand over the fire with water running through a garden hose and a long poke and stay with the fire till it burns out. While watching the fire, I noticed a discarded book in the middle of the flames. The book was opened. Although the book was surrounded by flames, its pages burned very slowly in comparison with the other trash. The center of the pages of the book would not burn! Only the edges of the pages were singed a bit. The top page of the open section of the book would separate from the rest and go up in flames, exposing the next page fully. A second or two later another page would rolled up in flames exposing the next page. I asked myself,
"Why?"
The same thing would happen if I threw an old deck of cards into the fire. Only the edges of the cards b1ackend. Later when removing the ashes I noticed that the playing cards survived the burning. The centers of all the cards did not burn! Lucky for me that the firey display. somehting.
I deal in magic, and I could see magic in Mother nature was trying tell me to
Three components are needed to produce a fire. Everybody knows that. You need a 1. fuel, 2. heat and 3. oxygen. If anyone of the components is removed the fire goes out. That is the reason why the pages of the book did not burn readily. There was no air (with oxygen) between the pages. The same goes for the cards. Considering the above, I have invented a billet that burns faster on one side than the other! I named this billet the Devi1,s billet. I also constructed an envelope that burns faster on one side than on the other. There seems to be no end to what a magician can do applying these principles. The principle can be applied to newspapers, books, etc. The above mentioned billet and envelope are not treated in anyway chemically (I thought of that, but no chemical preparation is needed). Both the billet and the envelope must be totally opaque.
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VOICES FROM HADES
THE DEVIL'S BILLET
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NOTE: To the spectators it appears that the secret writing is covered with three layers of paper, and it is, but only from the audience side. you can tell the audience that. BUT from the performer's side, only one layer of paper covers the writing. 2. Turn the folded billet (Fig. 2) completely over from left to right and then fold it into quarters by folding from top to bottom towards you. The billet will now look like in Fig. 3 as it lays on the table tent fashion. The billet must be folded well so that it will fold agin into the billet as shown in Fig. 3. Fold the billet only in one direction.
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You will need a pair or two of tweesers. Use tweesers that depend on spring tention as shown in Fig. 4.
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In Fig. 5 the tweesers are being used to pick up the billet. NOTE that the tweesers are pinching only three panels, panels A, C and D., keeping the air out, while panel B is loose. The folded billet has two vital spots. Spot X is the loose corner of panel B which is covering the written word. Spot Y is the fold where panel B is attached by only 3/16th inch material. The tweesers serve three purposes. to see the billet. 4
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VOICES FROM HADES
THE DEVIL'S BILLET
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The tweesers pinch together three panel~, A, C and D, keeping the air out and slowing down the burning of the three panels. The tweesers protect your fingers from burning. TESTING TIME Let's test the above claims. Get a billet, write a word on it and hold it as in Fig. 5. Don't be a hero. Stand still. Don't wave your arms or the billet. Now take a match or a candle and apply fire to point X first and immediately apply fire to point Y. Hold the billet on the vertical line. As soon as point Y catches on fire, panel B will be like a flap and free to curl up and burn faster uncovering the secret word just long enough for you to read it. As soon as the word is read turn the billet writting-side down and allow it to burn completely.
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You can glimpse the secret word. All you need is a tall candle with the flame at about you height of eye. Lift the billet with the tweesers tilting the bottm of it a tiny bit towards you. Then you must look at what you are doing, glimpse the word and burn the billet.
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efecLled.. /;'1- t:re Here we will deal with an opaque envelope that is sealed and burnt. We simply preparethe letterenvelope so that the address panel of the envelope, acts like"tbe flap panel B of the Devil's Billet. Get a security envelope. Fig. 8 shows a letter size envelope, 3-1/2 by 6-1/2 in size. With a sharp knife we slit the entire bottom of the envelope. We slit also the sides of the envelope but not entirely. The address panel of the envelope will be attached to the back panel only at the top and about 3/16 inch at the lower corners.
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cut a triangular piece from the left side of the , We also address panel only. Fig.8 X. This is to later be able to insert the tweesers and also to see the index card inside and stick the tweesers over the edge of the index card. Prepare an index card as shwon in Fig. 9. Mark the card on its back with a pencil dot so that you can tell the bottom of the card. After the VIP writes the word tell him to turn the card over and then have him insert the card into the envelope and then seal the envelope. You
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Make sure the index card shows through the triangular cut. , of course are covering the triangular cut with your fingers. The envelope can be shown all around.
the tweesers FOR THE PRESENTATION, Take the envelope with thruogh the making sure that one prong of the tweesers goes in triangular cut and over the index card. Set the two lower corners of the envelope on fire and the address panel will burn fast giving you a glimpse of the secret message.
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THE DEVIL'S BILLET
cont.
I know that at least one of my readers will try Devil's Billet Test with two or more billets.
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The VIP memorises A DOLLAR BILL. TRY IT YITH quarters. You the dollar bill into and folds tweesers as shown in Fig. 11 and then set fire and you can That. part will burn faster corner. three or four digits of the bill and tha t is all
the serial number grip it with the to the lower left memories the last you need.
TYO BILLETS. Give a billet that has the name of a force card, word or number to one spectator, while you take a real billet with a secret message and have both billets burned. The distraction of two billets burning will entertain and misdirect your audience. YITH A BIT OF THOUGHT AND billets hung on bulldog clips in them have three Devil's Billets three billets while you burn the
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BOTHER, you can have three blank podition 1, 2 and 3, and next to hung. A spectator burns the first three Devil's billets.
VOICES FROM HADES
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ATTENTION DOCC HILFORD AND ALL BIZARISTS SHADES OF MALINI. You prepare a hardcover book that you no longer want by breaking its spine and make sure that the book opens to the same page every time when you drop it spine down. Say it opens to page 105. Go to page 111 and write in big letters the name of a force card, say, QUEEN OF HEARTS or its initials. You have forced the Queen of Hearts upon one of the celebrities that you have invited to a pic-nic. At the picnic call on the celebrity and show him the book. Say that you are going to perform a magic ritual. You have this magic book that is now obsolete and you must burn it. So you throw the book into the pic-nic fire carefully making sure it lands with the pages opon. Tell the VIP to watch and one page goes up in flames and then another until the page with the Queen of Hearts shows up. Well you know what to do.
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