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WATER INTO WINE!
This amusing, entertaining, and tasteful "experiment" is sure to make a "hit" at wedding feasts and other social functions! With a wave of your hand, you appear to transform ordinary tap water into wine!!!
The secret, of course, is our patented Aqua-VinoŠ waterpot (available in 2 & 3 firkin sizes).
Instructions: Before performing this "Miracle", the "Magician" surreptitiously substitutes the Aqua-VinoŠ waterpot. With a "Magical" wave of the hand, he presses the release valve (fig.B).
The wine (or grape juice) which is stored in the hidden bottle neck reservoir, will flow down the "false" or "hollow" sides of the bottle, creating the effect of transforming the water into wine!
N.B.: This "Wonder" is best accomplished after the guests have consumed rather a lot of wine. When they taste your "Magic" wine, they may actually maintain that it is better than what they tasted previously!
THE SECRET OF THE INCREDIBLE MULTIPLYING LOAVES & FISHES
At a dinner party, or any social gathering around the "Festive Board", what entertainment could be more delightful than a combination of "conjuring" & "catering" ?
The multitudes are certain to worship you when you produce, from a simple basket, a sufficiency of the "Staff of Life" and "Finny Denizens of the Deep" to feed all and sundry... with numerous left over!
Here is the long-kept secret of Jesus H. Christ's most popular effect!
This illusion is accomplished with the aid of an assistant, or "Apostle", who crouches beneath the surface of the "prepared" table and passes loaves and fishes up through the basket into the hands of the "Master".
If the effect is to be attempted in the out-of-doors, more elaborate advanced preperations, that is digging a hole in the mountain side of sufficient size to accommodate the Apostle and the victuals, will be neccessary.
THE "DEATH-DEFYING" WALKING ON WATER
Imagine the surprise on your Brethren and Disciples who are "out for a sail", when they suddenly see you approaching, and walking upon the surface of the water!
In the words of many a spectator, this illusion is "Just Divine!"
And here's how it's done:
To the bottoms of an ordinary pair of sandals are affixed the inflated bladders of two Garadene Swine (fig.A)
N.B.: This effect requires much private practice! Rehearse in shallow pools before attempting it on the surface of the sea! A slow stately walking style is neccessary, but adds much to the beauty of the spectacle! (fig.B).
THE ELECTRIFYING "TRANSFIGURATION" ILLUSION
This 'Show Stopper" is a multitude-pleasing effect which was only occasionally performed by Dr. Christ. Like most "spectacular" effects, it is, in reality, more easily accomplished than many "close-up" sleight-of-hand illusions, e.g. "Making the Blind to See", in which "the hand" must be, indeed, "quicker than the eye".
This illusion should be attempted only at sunrise, and performed atop a hill facing East. A highly polished, completely transparent pane of glass. {We recommend the "Beatific Vision" or "Sun of God" models} should be previously erected on the hill top (fig.A).
The glass will be quite invisible to on-lookers, but the rays of the rising sun, striking it, will create an impression glorious to behold, and quite unforgettable! (fig.B)
TWO HEADED CAESAR
A "volunteer" from the multitude (actually a Disciple in disguise) asks the illusionist a "trick" question. After deep thought, the Master replies that he will discover the answer by tossing a coin. The "volunteer", by pre-arrangement, hands him up a coin, and the multitudes are astonished to discover that the "Answer" is always "Caesar"!
How is this achieved? By means of the "Two Headed", or "Two Faced", coin pictured below!
THE "LAZERUS EFFECT" : THE AMAZING, THRILLING ILLUSION OF RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD!
OR
"THE OLD TWO-COFFIN TRICK"
In plain view of a great multitude, a three-day-old corpse is placed in a coffin. Trustworthy members of the multitude, such as publicans and tax collectors, are asked to inspect the coffin, to place it in a tomb, and to verify that the tomb has been "sealed" shut with a large rock.
After several moments of intense suspense, while the Master "prays", he gives the command for the tomb to be unsealed, and the coffin to be brought back out.
When the coffin is, in turn, opened, Lazerus "comes forth!"
The ingenious secret to the "lazerus Effect" lies in careful rehearsal, the correct apparatus, and proper preparation.
Inside the tomb is a platform (A) on which the coffin (B) will be placed. This platform is balanced on a pivot (C). Beneath the platform is another identical coffin (D).
Once the tomb is sealed, the (very much alive) occupant of coffin (D), an associate and Disciple of the Master, simply shifts his weight, causing the platform to turn, coffin (B) to "disappear" beneath, and coffin (D), containing the living man, to be in a position to be removed and opened by the unsuspecting and astonished members of the public.
There is reason to believe that Dr. Christ, that most accomplished Prestidigitator, may someday attempt the "Lazerus Effect" with Himself as the "subject"; in other words, "raise himself" from "the dead".
Were he to attempt and accomplish this operation, there is little doubt it would be numbered among the Grandest Illusions of history!
