Here's another little effect that's really part of my Magic Course and is simply another way of vanishing a coin. - I've just added an amusing way of revealing the coin.
You can borrow a coin from a member of your audience, provided that it's not too heavy. You'll need to experiment with your own currence. However, I can say that all the UK coins work perfectly well. - I use the largest UK coin the 50 pence piece.
Anyway, let me just describe the it to you so that you get an idea of the effect before I give you a short explanation....
IT'S ALL IN THE MIND
Firstly you borrow a coin from a member of your audience and possibly perform a simple vanish, using something like the 'French Drop'. Then you say that you can actually vanish small items by using the "Power of the Mind".
You now clearly place the coin onto the palm of your left hand, and close your fist with the coin clearly still in the palm. You now turn your clenched fist over and give a little rub on the back of your left hend with the forefinger of your right hand, as you say, "It just takes a little concentration."
You next place your right hand onto your forehead, as if in deep concentration. Then SLOWLY OPEN THE LEFT HAND TO SHOW THE COIN HAS VANISHED!
As you continue to look at your empty left hand you remove the right hand from your forehead and say, - "There you are, VANSIHED BY THE POWER OF MY MIND."
However, the real FUN part is as you raise your eyes towards the audience, you say with a smile, - I can vanish things with the power of my mind but getting them back is not so easy."
You'll find there's GREAT AMUSEMENT as everyone can see that the coin is STUCK ON YOUR FOREHEAD. You look as if you're unaware of it being there and then when you relise what the audience are laughing at you, simply remove the coin from your forehead, hand it back to the person from whom you borrowed it and say, - "Powerful stuff this MIND POWER!"
So how's it done?....
The vanish is a nice little effect in itself and is done by placing the borrowed coin in the palm of your left hand , slightly towards the back of the palm (wrist side). - FIG. 1
If you now close your hand loosely and turn the palm downwards, your fingers will come into contact with the coin and and you can start to push it out of your palm towards the wrist.- FIG . 2 . This looks quite natural and is very easy, as your hand is turned palm downwards, gravity helps in the motion of pushing the coin part way out of your fist.
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Now with your right forefinger extended you simply give a little rub and tap the back of your left hand a couple of times, and as you do this you slowly turn your left hand over, so that it is now facing upwards with your thumb at the top.
The vanish is actually done during this turning movement. As your right forefinger remains extended and is now tapping the thumb area of the back of your slowly turning left hand, YOU CAN SIMPLY CLIP THE COIN WITH SECOND AND THIRD FINGERS AND STEAL IT AWAY, as in FIGS. 3 & 4.
You'll find that this is very easy to do, as the coin will be sticking out in just the right position to grasp it with the fingers of your right hand, as your left hand slowly turns over. It is a simple matter for the right second and third fingers to grip the coin and secretly steal it and carry it away. This is an excellent and effective way to vanish a coin.
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That's really the trick over, but you now need to use your acting ability to get the best and indeed the most amusing effect from the revelation of the coin on your forehead.
Once you have stolen the coin in the fingers of the right hand you simply let the right hand drop to your side and allow the coin to fall into the finger palm position. Or you can curl the fingers and push the coin into the standard coin-palm position, whichever is more comfortable. I prefer to let the coin fall into the finger palm, where it is in just the right place to stick on your forehead.
Next you hold out your left hand with the fist still clenched and supposedly still holding the coin and as you extend your left hand to the left side, you draw attention to it and keep your eyes on the left hand. You can now patter about the Power of the Mind.
As you are talking about the strange power of the mind, you bring your right hand up to your forehead and pretend to be concentrating very deeply and you press the coin against your forehead with the fingers. FIG. 5. Actually the act of pressing your fingers to your forehead is quite a natural one when concentrating and a little bit of play acting will convince the audience even more.
You'll find that the coin will stick to your forehead, due to the moisture and unless the coin is a very heavy one, you can take your hand away with confidence.. FIG. 6
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Once the coin is stuck, you continue to stare at your left hand You then remove your right hand from your forehead, leaving the coin sticking there, and point to the left hand. This draws attention to the left hand and then with a magical wave of the right hand, you slowly open your left hand to show that the coin has VANISHED..
As you wave your hand over the left hand it is obvious to the audience that the right hand is empty and the coin has really vanished. As you are looking to your left at your left hand, most of the audience will not really see your forehead and as you show both hands now empty in front of your body you are looking down and you appear as bewildered as the audience as to where the coin has gone.
You can then just say how amazing it is that the coin has vanished by The Power Of The Mind. Then as you raise your eyes to face the audience you just smile and say, - "I hope I have the mind to bring it back again!" As you look up at the audience everyone will see the coin on your forehead and you'll certainly get a laugh.
The trick can be over at this point or you can take it just a little further by appearing to be unaware of the coin on your forehead and look as if you don't know what the audience are laughing at. Then when it finally dawns on you or someone in the audience tells you, you simply remove the coin and say, "You see it's ALL IN THE MIND".
Accpet the applause and return the borrowed coin with thanks.
It's a super little effect and you can have a lot of fun with it. You can also add a litle bit more fun by swapping the coin for one with a small nail or screw-nail stuck on it. FIG. 7. You can then dispaly this and rub you forehead and say, "All that concentration and using my Mind Power really gives me a sore head"
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Go on try it and have FUN!
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