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It has been a pleasure in coopUing this

treatise on mental effects with watchea . The original intontion waa to present new material and erfecte wit h watChes. Por that r.aaon , liThe Clock Rffect" with cards is not included, since that braneh i3 amply covered in other books. I could have written two or three pages dealing with the "Stull~ watch. Unfortunately, the Stull watch is no longer available. It you can find one it will cost you over :;i2SO . Ir the reader is affluent enough to afford auch a luxury, be i3 welcomed to it. Tho Stull watch foroee a3 many as 27 different times. All you real_ ly need ie to torce 2 or 3 times and you can do that with the Honta! Watch doacribed here . Ke ep in mind t llat the effect is the same to your au{l1ence and that i8 what c ounts. Your audi~nce are \.tt1dor the belief that the watch is ung1mm1cked, eo it makes little difference what lIatch is used, if any. 1 sincerely hope t hat t he reador takes the trouble of ~ing a Mental Watch. It you are not handy \lith tools, you can have a f'riend do t ho work for you. Tho wonderful effects pos s ible with the lIatch will far outweigh the trouble of making 1t.

The principle used in "Death Watch ll , the first effect in the book , can be us od to f orce an,. hour , for any purpose , such as a prediction, t hought readin8 or for us e in the one -~l ead sys tem. In t he f ollowing pages you will f i nd the raw but practical ~ at ~ rial for t he cre ation of miraole. Hiuing 13 tho most imllortant ingredient of all, showmanship, which you, the miracle worker must provide . '!'he 001088&1. impact ot 11ental Magic cnn only be r e alized in front of a lay audience, and only a. lay audience can eUI)ply the basic traininG for t he sho\zman. Bost Wishee

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DEATH WATCH

BPPBCT: 7ha s pectator and the perrormer both set their watch•• at their choeen minutes and hour . The two times are combined and are round to indioate t h e h our or Death o:t a famous magioian, wh o died centuries ago. KerHOD -';ID PRE3 llN'r ATI OIl: rite a messag o a s follows and ,;lv8 it to saneone

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;;reat magi cian, alchemist and physician,

Tbeophrastu3 Parae.laue di ed i n Sal. burg, West Austria, on Sept. 24, '541 at tho hour of

4145 P.M.

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a pocket watch (pret'era-

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ting pad and a penoil . He 13 told to s ecretly set h i s watch to any h our .:md ninute and to also write his chosen t ime on tho pa.d. Let1s assume he writcs

6 :30.

The perf ormer takes anot he r pocket \latch and sets it to the

hour or 7;15 ( this 1s arrived at by subtracting 4:45, the hour ot Death , trom 12: 0 0).

The perform er shows h1s choson time of 7:15 to the speotator and tells him t o add it to h 18 own on the watch. 'l 'he spectator 18 told to fir st move his ainute hand ahe ad 15 minutes, and t hen to move his time ahead one hour a t a time until ho has added 7 hours. 'l'h..1s \till bring the spe ctator's watch tim. to 1 :45.

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which roads 1:45 on the watch

Next, tell tho epoctator to subtract 1:45 from the time he wrote on the pad.

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Tell speotator to set his watoh to the n ow hour of 4 :45 and then read tho sealed message I

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Harry Houdini died at Grace Hospital in Dotroit, October 31st 1 926 at 1 :26 P.H.

ltichigan on Por mer choosos performerts 12:00. 'I'h1s Halloween.

working the Death Watch effect, the perfor_ the hour of 10 : 34. Just remember that the time plus the Death Hour must always equal knowledge is great for a seance or for

HOW TO MA.K.E

):OUR OWN INx:tPBNSIVE HIDfl'AL WATCH

Go to a drugstore and buy 3 inexpsnnve pocket watches . The

cheaper the better. These watches sell for $2 and uP. Be sure that the watches are all aliko and with a s~y metal case, instead of the plastic-case ones. THO watches Hill be ne eded to make one mental. watch. The third watch i8 the one you can p a~s out for oxamina tion. It really doosn I t matter ~lhat make of Hatch you buy as any type Hatch can be gimmickod, but you mny Hant to examine the .Iatches before you buy them. Seme watches lilte the "Biltoore " usuall.y como .lith a :face piece that can. be pried orf '.lith a. pen lmife . Nost watchos do not . What we need 1s a Hatch th&.t has two faces. To do this wo lIlustre:move the face piec e from one "atch and cement it to the back of another.

The :face piece Hill include t he crystnl Hith a rim of metal all arotuld. about 3/16 inch Hide " with the face and hands attachod. PROCEDURE:

1. Remove the crystal .z1 th 3/16 inch rim of metal from '111 watch by prying it off \·, ith a pen knife if possible . rieter to Fig. 1. If the face piece is not detachable then you must sail it off with a smnll hack-saw or electric hand tool. Cut along the line as indicated in the figurs. This is an easy operation.

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2. r'rom the same Hatch (watch #1), remove alao the watch face and the hands. Be care.rul not t o damage the taco. The hands may fall otf when the face i s removed . A short piece ot the center spindle will cane in handy tor holding tho hands in place, so snip ott a piece, about 1/8 inch. Discard the rest ot the \latoh as it will Dot be needed.

3. ~'/lth olear glass or all purpose cement , oement the hands and the short piece of spindle to the tace at your desired hour . 8:18 18 good. Ha.1t for the oement to dry, then

4. \/ith small dots ot the cement, oement the taoe assembly to the inside of the crystal piece . The cement i o placed all along the edges of tho face . You will have a g1mmick that l ooks like a watch fram t he front as s een in Fig. 2. 5. From watch il2 , remove the back metal cover, by prying it oft \lith a pen lalire, and discard it. You will n ow find that the face nimmick tits SBugly to the back of ;/2 1Iatch. Cemont the faoo ghnm1 ck in plnce and your Montal 'latch alr:lost parallel to t he palm. Pig . 3. As a matter of fact, it is almost imposs ible to expo se t he other face unless you do it deliberat ely . To prove this , hold your hand pa.l.n up and parallel to the .floor and place your uatch on it. Try to peek unde r the watch t o see the ot h er ra c e ll1ld you will be surprised that you can't s e e it. Jet into the habit or placing the watch fl at on tile cu pped pa.lm. It lo ol~s n a tural to handle it that way an d you u ill n e ViJ l' oxpose the other face .

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Elt'1.i'ECTS '. II'l'lI Ti:..:: He;H'r,\.L WATCH DUIDlIaBR I S HIMCLB

liPFECT: The performer divines the times set on throe

watohes by three members o£ the audi enoe .

J.1ethod: Used are two unpr epared pockot watohes and the l1enta1 ~latch . Also three cloth bags made of blaok vel-

vet material large enough to hold the watch and to allow the hand to enter to turn the stom wheel.

Pass one unprepared uatch and a bag to a person on your loft: and make a big deal out of telling him to

se t the watch secretly to any hour

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l1ateh in the bag and pull the string or tie D. rubber band around the openning. Do the s~e thing a gain w1th a second pe rson at

about the center of the audience . Show the Mental \:atch to a third person at your

right. Place tho watch ins1de t he bag nnd tell him t o stick his hand insido and to turn the s toOl wheel as much as desired . Then close tho bag and collect nIl three bags. Place the bags i n position 1 to 3 on the table in front of you . vo t o baG ::1, 1'eol it and lIrite t he Force Time on n card and pIneo it face d01-m, uithout e hot1in~ it, in !"ront of ;tI bag. Gi vo papor and poncil to n n other SPdctntor and tell hi.rn. t o r ocord IIhat you will tell him to. Open #1 bag , take out the watch and read the time so that all can hear and have it rocorded as Hntch tf1 . Go to bali and writo n second predi cti on, but actually tn-ito dOlm the time 01' the fir st watch. Placo tho card faco dOlm in front of 112 baG , take tho Hatch out and callout tho time. d OPORt the :HIJ'!tO thing HUh bag ;/3 , but urite down the time for uatch #2 . Taka out t ho Hatch and call out tho time ror Hatch .13, (the f orce hour). Uow piok up tho three cards in orde r. Placo -;,1 card on top of tl2 and both on t op 01' 113 . fut due to tho one-ahead principle, the ordur 01' t he cards fr om top to bottom is 3, 1. 2 , in r C3poct to the watches. llold tho cards tace down in your deuing po siti on in preparation to do t ho glide move . '1'011 the s pectator dth the paper to callout tho timo for u1 watoh. Do the glid.:: and bring, out the centr card and displ ay it. Hext speotutor 00.11s out tho time for J/2 \latoh and you display tho bottan card and last the las t oard . All three cards coinoi de Idth the three \-Iatches l

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'l'his eff ect is similar to the above . A sealed box is giTen to s CGeono to hold. Performer states that t bo box containa a watch that was sea.led while it \'J a3 running and then it was 8110\'led to run do\.'11. . NOBODY KNOWS AT WHAT TIME THE HANDS OP THE WATCH HAIlE STOPPED • .4 s ocond Hat ch is introduced and severnl spectntors e.re allowed to turn the stem. The rinol hoUJ' is noticed (the For ce Hour) and found to coincide Hi th the st opped Hntch . Anothor conclus ion t o this effect is to give someone the Mental ~:ntoh before the show. The spectator is tol d that t ho lIatch is running and is shown tho time. '1'h e Hatch is t hen soaled ~ a bag and is lator called for during tho show f or t he conclusion of t he effect . Aotual1'1 the \-Iatch 1s rwming but 1 t has only a r cw seo onds or minutes to run. The watch is sot to the approximate time or a t ell minute befol'e the .force hour . You will need two Hento.l ii&tohe s t o brins this eff ect about .. or t he "Lleath HourI! rorc o ia us ed.

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UlPACT 0:' TINE

This is an adaptation of a card effect oall ed , "Impaot" by Orville Heyer which appeared in Mental

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EPPECT: Three spectators set a pooket wat ch to

(J) d11'forent settings by turning the stem uheel.

'!'he performer h as predicted the threo s e ttings I

The above effect 1s "The &ffeot lf on the audience. What actually hnppens is a totally different thing. M,o'l'!IOD : The performer u se s h is Keota! ', latch which

forcos the hour of, nay. 6:18. He shows the other face of tho watch and turns the stem wheel t o set the hands at various hour set t inga. Then he allows the !Speotators to turn the at$m wheel without seeing the watoh face. ~~e three spectator s are in three difforent positions in the BUM di a nee. THE SAlB HOUR IS FanCED on ALL TlffiJlli SPECTATORS I

The predictions name threo different settings auch 8a 2:30, 10:42 and 8:18. The performor then aBk~ the three spectatora to please raise thoir hands if their uhour u was called. All three spectators raise thoir handa and the effect ia brought to a conolu3ion. The author of this treatise can vouch tor tho fact that the "Impaot !! effect works most effeotively. One perfoI"!"ls r worked the effect succesa:t'ully with three speot8to ~ a sitting together I 'rha impact of the effect silenoed t he three s veotatora. Eaoh soec tat or assumes that the othor two time. called oorrespond to the other two pers onal nle perforner 1s forced to look at the force ttmea sinoe he will be ilolding the watch in his hands. He points or tapa the taoe of tho watch and s&ya, "Remember the time, please II. 110 3pea.k 3 in a loud voice 30 that the whole audience can hear. 'l'he illU3ion i!l pertect end the effoct 13 indeed an "Impact".

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EFFgC1\: The hands or a watch move by ps ychokinesis (ment a1 energy). MEl'liOD: In "Confessions or n Psychic ll , publ1she4 by

Karl FulV8S, is a good method ror the same errect. Here I will describe my method using the Mental watch.

Pig. 4 TOOL CLIP. ACTUAL SIZE

Fig. 5 Edge vieN of the watch with clip in

place over stBm wheel Pr6m a Urdvue store, get a tool clip lik e the one snown in Fig. 4. This type o f cl i p is made to sorew on the wal.l to hold small tools. It ma a auras 1 inch hIgh, by 1 ~ inoh

across and made of 1/2 inch metal atrip. When this clip 1s placed over the st em wheel of the watch as shown in Fig.

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it makes th e stem ,,,he 01 inaocesible.

PrlESEtfTATION: ~h OH t he working face of t h e Mental Watch to the audience, movin G the stem \yheel to shalf that the

hands move. Ask some one to callout any hour and set the handa to that hour (provided the hour i s differ ent i'rom the Foree Hour) ~ Place the tool clip over the stEn:l

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wheel and show that it is impossiblo to turn the wheel while the clip is 1n pla ce. Plaoe the Ha toh under a cloth covering TURNING THE ,"ATCH OVER in the process. Wait a few m1nute8~ then walk over to t h e tabls A uncover

the watch and say Nothing has happonned yet". ~over th8 watch again and wait a fww more minutes and £1nally show that the hands have moved. na.oo the Hatch in your

coat pocket where your other straight uatch is. Show the oloth covering to prove that there 18 no othe r \-Iatch under it. Some one will surely want to examine the watoh, TA.KE OUT THE S'1'RAIGHT I/ATCH l·mICl! ALSO HAS A CLIP OU I'l', AND mX:OME SURr RISr:: A3 THE HAllDa HAVE MOVED AGAIN. Pass

the watch and olip out for examinati on. The PSYCHIC BlJLLKl

For a Hay-out el'1'ect you could cause the oryatal to break simply by breaking the crystal before hand on your mental watch. You will then have & double effect ot oausing tho hands to move and broaking the crystal at the same timo l You lIould have to break the crystal on your etraiBht watch also for surely saneone \!

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