Outstanding collection of nearly 200 crowd-pleasing mental magic feats requiring no special equipment. Author offers insider's tips and expert advice on techniques, presentation, diversions, patter, staging, more.

Sixty-seven sure-fire mental feats to delight and mystify: mind reading with cards, instant ESP, identifying the owners of objects given to you in random order, number prediction, much more. 73 illustrations.

Haven't you always wanted to know how the tricks of a mentalist work? How you can bend a spoon with only the power of the mind? How to stop your own heart from beating? Or what the secrets are of mind reading and clairvoyance? No problem: This ingenious book will reveal the greatest trade secrets of the mental magician. You will learn the tricks and techniques necessary to perform apparent miracles yourself. Contents: Spoon bending Stopping your own heart Mind reading Voodoo signs Stopping a watch by the power of the mind ESP Test Breaking a fork by the power of the mind Get to know the strongest weapons of the mentalist and baffle your friends! These techniques and tricks will get you ready to present your mental powers at the next party, in a bar, at a restaurant or anywhere else. Numerous photos support the explanations.

"Much of the text deals with the treatment of various illnesses and diseases through the application of mesmerism, though there are attempts to utilize spiritual access for empirical purposes. The author's intention is to teach readers how to induce a mesmeric state, as opposed to explaining the science behind it. A number of case studies are provided in which health is attained through the practices described, including incidents of sleep induction, cure of ulcers, rickets, colds, tooth- and earaches; the author does advise, however, that until the reader is more thoroughly acquainted with the science and application of mesmerism, not to attempt to cure epilepsy or skin diseases. Welton was a surgical instrument-maker and spiritualist, and along with his wife Sarah claimed to have invented the 'planchette,' a fore-runner of the Ouija board, which is described herein. The book was edited by Robert H. Fryar, a publisher of occult works. Fryar includes some of his own material in an appendix, as well as a chapter on magical mirrors entitled, 'Treatise on mental magic; or, an historical and practical treatise on fascination,' translated from the work of the noted French spiritualist Louis Alphonse Cahagnet."--Antiquarian bookseller's description