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The Art of Jugling or Legerdemaine Contents |
Introduction Todd Karr
Notes and observations
Feats of legerdemaine used with the Balls, with one or more
To make a little Ball swell in your hand till it be very great
To consume (or rather convey) one of many Balls into nothing
Another pretty feat with Balls
A feat, tending cheifly to laughter and mirth
Of conveyance of mony
To convey money out of one hand into the other, by Legerdemaine
To convert or transubstantiate money into Counters, or Counters into money
To put one Testor into one hand, and another into another hand, and with words bring them together
To put one Testor into a stranger's hand and another in your own hand, and to convey both into the stranger's hand with words
To throw a piece of money away and to find it again where you please
To make a Testor or groat leap out of a pot, or run along upon a table with words
A very pretty trick to make a Groat or a testor to sink through a table, and to vanish out of a handkerchief very strangely
To convey one Shilling being in one hand into another, holding your arms abroad like to a rod
Of Cards and dice, with good cautions how to avoid cozenage therein
A tricke by confederacy at Cards
How to deliver out four Aces, and to convert them into four Knaves
How to tell one what Card he sees in the bottom, when the same Card is shuffled into the stock
A strange and excellent trick to hold four Kings in the hand, and by words to transform them into four Aces, and after to make them all blank Cards, one after another
Of public confederacy, and whereof it consists
To tell you how to know whether one casts Cross or Piles by the ringing
Of boxes to alter one grain into another, or to consume the grain or corn to nothing
How to convey (with words or charms) the corn contained in one Box into another
How to pull laces innumerable out of your mouth
To eat a Knife, and to fetch it forth of another place
To thrust a bodkin through your head, without any hurt
To cut in half your nose asunder, and to heal it again presently without any salve
To put a ring through your cheek
Plus seventeenth-century tales, spells, and charms