Effect
More Living Than Dead
Theodore Annemann · Practical Mental Effects, 1944
- Time
- 2 min read + 10 min practice
- Materials
- In the library
- Prerequisites
- None
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Effect
You pass out four paper slips on which your subject writes three living names and one of a person who has passed on. He folds the slips once each way with the names inside. You take the slips one at a time, tear them up and drop them into an ashtray. As you do so each time, you burn the pieces by holding alighted match to each separate pile. Suddenly, as the third one is burning, you say, “This is the dead name slip which is burning now!” Then reveal the dead person's name. The fourth “live” slip is left on the table.
How it is done
The method and all it needs, inside the library.
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