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      Hocus Pocus Junior: The Anatomie of Legerdemain

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664637741

      Table of Contents

       The Anatomie of LEGERDEMAI N.

       To the Reader.

       The Art of LEGERDEMAINE Discovered.

       The originall of Legerdemaine , and how it came first into this Kingdome.

       The Definition of the Art of Legerdemain , with its principall parts.

       The end of the Art of Legerdemaine .

       The Definition, or description of the Operator.

       Of the Play of the Balls.

       How to make a great Ball seeme to come through a Table into a Cup.

       Other very pretty tricks with Bals.

       Another.

       Another.

       How to make a stone seeme to vanish out of your hand.

       Another.

       How to make a Card vanish, and finde it againe in a Nut.

       How to seeme to eate a Knife.

       How to rap a Wag on the knuckles.

       How to seeme to swallow a long pudding made of Tinne.

       How to seeme to cut ones nose halfe off.

       How to seeme to pull a rope through your nose.

       How to make a pile of Counters seeme to vanish thorow a Table.

       How to seeme to put a ring through ones cheeke.

       How to seeme to thrust a bodkin into your forehead.

       How to put a Locke upon ones mouth.

       The use of it.

       How to make it freeze by the fire side.

       How to breath fire out of your mouth.

       How to draw ribbins of any colour out of your mouth, and to deliver it by the yard.

       How to make two bels come into one hand, having put into each hand one.

       How to make a Iugling booke, or a booke for Waggery.

       Bonus Genius or Nuntius invisibilis, or Hiccius Doccius as my senior cals it.

       Boxes to change Graine.

       How to vanish a glasse full of Beere.

       How to seeme to cut off a mans head, it is called the decollation of Iohn Baptist.

       How to make the face of a Childe to appeare in a pot of water.

       Advice whereby you may drinke a Tunnell full of drink, and afterwards seeme to poure the same all out of your sleeve againe.

       How to seeme to make a tooth drop out with a touch.

       Another conceit to procure laughter.

       How to make two or three egges dance upon a staffe.

       A merry conceit

       How to knit an hard knot upon a handkercher, and to seeme to undo the same with words.

       A notable feat of Fast and Loose; namely, to pull three beadstones from off a Cord, while you hold fast the ends thereof, without removing of your hands.

       To burne a threed, and to make it whole againe with the ashes thereof.

       To cut a Lace asunder in the midst, and to make it whole againe.

       How to seeme suddenly to melt a piece of Coyne with words.

       A device whereby you may draw sundrie liquors out of one seeming vessell, all which