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Billet reading, or the envelope trick, is a mentalist effect in which a performer pretends to use clairvoyance to read messages on folded papers or inside sealed envelopes. It is a widely performed "standard" of the mentalist craft since the middle of the 19th century.
The act involved a variation of the magician's billet reading trick: divining the answer to a question written on a card sealed inside one of the envelopes, announcing it to the audience, then tearing open the envelope to reveal the question. The comedy came from an unexpected question following a seemingly straightforward answer.
Burling Hull (September 9, 1889 – November 1982) was an inventive magician, self-styled "the Edison of magic," specializing in mentalism and sleight of hand effects. During the greater part of his life he lived in DeLand, Florida.
In 1924, Julius confessed that their mind reading act was a trick and published the secret code and all the details of the trick method they had used under the title of Our Secrets! in a London newspaper. [8] Writing in 1929, the year of Julius Zancig's death, the British magician Will Goldston described their methods. [9]
The first follow-up published in 1979 as Self-Working Mental Magic with 67 mind-reading tricks. Volumes on table magic and number magic published in 1981 and 1982. A direct continuation to the series' first entry published in 1984 with the title More Self-Working Card Tricks, and an entry on paper magic followed in 1985.
Oz Pearlman after a mind reading show. Oz Pearlman (born July 19, 1982) is an American mentalist, magician and athlete who lives and works in the United States.He performs as a mentalist under the name "Oz the Mentalist", and has successfully appeared on America's Got Talent, winning third-place in Season 10 (2015).
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Here's Fun for Young and Old: Dunninger’s Magic Tricks (1940) What's On Your Mind (1944) 100 Houdini Tricks You Can Do (1954) The Art of Thought Reading (1956) Magic and Mystery: The Incredible Psychic Investigations of Houdini and Dunninger (1967) Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic (1967) Dunninger's Secrets as told to Walter Gibson ...