The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic

2002
Written by Donato Colucci
Work of Donato Colucci
305 pages (Hardcover), published by Hermetic Press
Illustrated with drawings by Joseph K. Schmidt
Language: English
332 entries
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Ravelle, Andree Egg to Bouquet
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  • Ravelle and Andree, Bouquets and Blossoms, 1959, p. 2
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Joseph Ovette Card to Egg card changes into egg
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  • "A Surprise" (Eggstraordinary Ways of Eggshibiting with Eggs, p. 22)
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Egg, Handkerchief, and Onion egg produced, then changed to silk, silk changes color, back to egg, then to an onion
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  • Professor Hoffmann, Tricks with Handkerchiefs, 1893, p. 329
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Ralph K. Nocerini Eggs to Popcorn
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  • Genii, Vol. 16 No. 10, June 1952, p. 382
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Marlin Perry Eggs to Silk
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  • Practical Magic, p. 46
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Donato Colucci Egg on Fan introduction, credit information
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Egg on Fan - First Method: The Original Oriental Method
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  • "The Japanese Fan and Egg" (Genii, Vol. 15 No. 9, May 1951, p. 367)
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Egg on Fan - Second Method: The Western Version
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  • "Cigarette Paper Changed to an Egg" (Modern Magic Manual, p. 163)
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Phil Rodriguez Egg on Fan - Third Method: With a Napkin
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Ray Maxwell Egg on Fan - Fourth Method: With Gimmicked Fan
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Al Wheatley Chop Chop's Egglass egg develops in brandy snifter
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T. Lorenzo Davis An Egg in Hand without fan
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  • "New Process Egg" (Tops, Vol. 1 No. 11, Nov. 1936, p. 27)
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Douglas Francis The Color-changing Egg - First Method: The Francis Original white egg in glass, red silk changed to red egg, white egg is now white silk, more color changes happen
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  • "Egg'straordinary" (The Gen, Vol. 17 No. 9, Jan. 1962, p. 247)
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Ken De Courcy The Color-changing Egg - Second Method: The de Cource Variation silk & egg color changing routine
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  • "Eggs'trordinary Extemporised" (The Gen, Vol. 6 No. 3, July 1950, p. 75)
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Karrell Fox Never Say Dye eggs become colorful easter eggs in change bag
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Robertson Keene Easter Eggs white eggs become colored in hat, then are shown to be of chocolate
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  • "An Easter-Eggsperiment" (The Magician Monthly, Vol. 33 No. 4, Mar. 1937, p. 44)
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Dave Roper Eggs to Bunny eggs to candy rabbit in large paper cup
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  • "Eggo" (The Linking Ring, Vol. 31 No. 1, Mar. 1956, p. 74)
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Dave Roper Egg to Chick egg cracked into can, changes to live chicken
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  • "Finding the Easter Chick" (The Linking Ring, Vol. 31 No. 1, Mar. 1956, p. 75)
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Theo "Okito" Bamberg Egg to Canary - First Method: The Okito Version on a tray
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  • Bamberg and Parrish, Okito on Magic, 1952, p. 139
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Egg to Canary - Second Method: The Japanese Version eggs put into bottle, bottle broken and bird flies out
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  • "Instantaneous Incubation" (The Magician Monthly, Vol. 10 No. 10, Sept. 1914, p. 157)
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Milbourne Christopher Egg to Canary - Third Method: Milbourne Christopher's Version broken egg poured in paper bag, egg restored, bird comes out of egg
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  • "Egg a la Christopher" (Hugards Magic Monthly, Vol. X No. 2, July 1952, p. 955)
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Egg to Dove
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  • Marian, Chavez, The Marian Chavez Encyclopedia of Dove Magic, revised by Tony Spina, 1979, p. 72
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The Growing Egg - First Method: With Shells small egg grows in multiple stages
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  • "Expanding Egg" (Glassel & Faust, New and Startling Tricks, 1890, p. 34)
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Roy Baker The Growing Egg - Second Method: The Roy Baker Feke uses odd shaped wooden egg, egg elongates and grows visually
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The Growing Egg - Third Method: Growth in a Frame
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  • "The Expanding Egg" (Secrets of Modern Conjuring, p. 43)
  • "Improved Expanding Egg" (Thayer's Magical Bulletin, Vol. 8 No. 5, May 1920, p. 70)
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Herman Hanson The Growing Egg - Fourth Method: Herman Hanson's Approach egg grows, hen from giant egg
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  • M-U-M, Vol. 41 No. 11, Apr. 1952, p. 301
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William G. Stickland The Growing Egg - Fifth Method: Stickland's Method with Production Box
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  • "Egg Incubator" (Ian Adair, Encyclopaedia of Dove Magic, Vol. 2, 1970, p. 311)
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The Diminishing Egg - First Method: With Shells nest of three eggs
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Laurie Ireland The Diminishing Egg - Second Method: The Ireland Version
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  • Magic, Inc. ("Diminishing Golf Ball")
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Carl Ballantine The Diminishing Egg - Third Method: The Ballantine Handling diminishing ball gimmick
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Wizard's Omelet Borrowed Rings and Live Doves produced from an Omelet, dove pan
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P. T. Selbit The Incubator eggs put in container, birds come out
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  • The Magical Entertainer, p. 40
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Miscellany
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An Egg Flourish rolling egg between two fingers, as with billiard ball
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  • "An Egg Move" (Fifty Fakes, p. 13)
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Orville Wayne Meyer Egg Through Handkerchief
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  • "Another Penetration" (The Sphinx, Vol. 29 No. 12, Feb. 1931, p. 518)
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Passing an Egg Through a Hat - First Method: With a Thread using blown egg on thread
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Passing an Egg Through a Hat - Second Method: With Shell
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  • Mahatma, Vol. III No. IV, Oct. 1899, p. 296
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Samuels Everett Egg It Thru egg through steel plate
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  • Tops, Vol. 6 No. 7, July 1941, p. 20
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Hubert Lambert Meet the Odd Ovum egg sucked into bottle
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  • The Gen, Vol. 15 No. 11, Mar. I960, p. 270
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Donato Colucci The Mind-reading Egg card or message written on skin of hard-boiled egg when peeled, credit information
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Sid Fleischman Magic's Second Most Notorious Trick message written on skin of hard-boiled egg when peeled
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Tom Conley Conley's Mindless Egg card chosen, three eggs on table, one peeled and name of card is on hard-boiled yolk inside, second egg has miniature deck with selection reversed and third egg folded selection inside
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Tom Sellers Reading the Mind of an Egg marked egg found amongst other eggs
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Jardine Ellis The Holder of the Egg different-colored eggs distributed in audience, color chosen, spectator is stooge
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  • Stanley Norton, A Few Jardine Ellis Secrets, 1925, p. 26
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The Crush-proof Egg egg cannot be crushed between hands
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  • Martin Gardner in Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. X No. 3, Aug. 1952, p. 975
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Harlan Tarbell The Broken and Restored Egg - First Method: Humpty Dumpty Outdone spectator breaks egg in handkerchief
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Harlan Tarbell The Broken and Restored Egg - Second Method: Tarbell's Unbreakable Egg spectator breaks egg in handkerchief
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The Broken and Restored Egg - Third Method: Egg through Ring
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  • Tops, Vol. 6 No. 3, Mar. 1941, p. 15
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Val Andrews The Egg-mag egg bag routine with magazine cone instead of bag
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Johnnie Geddes Egg Sandwich fried egg taken out of pocket and put between breads, gag
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  • Abracadabra, Vol. 15 No. 378, May 1953, p. 220
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Clettis V. Musson Heavy Egg egg tossed off stage and makes loud clank
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  • Clettis Musson, Situation Comedy for Magicians, 1954, p. 41
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Card in Egg - First Method: The Card-in-egg Wand
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Card in Egg - Second Method: With an Eggcup
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  • Eggstraordinary Ways of Eggshibiting with Eggs, p. 22
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Robertson Keene Humpty Dumpty Card and Egg card torn up, pieces change to egg and where egg was is restored card minus corner, inside egg is name of card on hard-boiled egg
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  • More Novel Notions, p. 47
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Grant Stuart Egg in Card egg vanishes, a card is torn open and egg content poured from torn card
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Dollar Bill in Egg - First Method: With a Thumb Tip
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  • Milbourne Christopher, 50 Tricks with a Thumb Tip, 1948, p. 22
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Max Malini Dollar Bill in Egg - Second Method: The Malini Treatment bill in lemon and bill in egg, bills vanish from handkerchief, with wand
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Bill Kalush Bill in Lemon Credit Information Felix Favian
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Joseph Ovette Dollar Bill in Egg - Third Method: Ovette's Version
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  • "Bill, Lemon, and Egg" (Eggstraordinary Ways of Eggshibiting with Eggs, p. 28)
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Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser The Opal Goblet borrowed handkerchief burns in goblet and appears inside egg
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  • Ottokar Fischer, The Magic of J. N. Hofzinser, 1942, p. 83
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D'Alvini D'Alvini's Egg and Handkerchief Effect egg broken and poured on borrowed handkerchief, put in pistol and shot on performer, handkerchief comes from his mouth, egg as well
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Ring in Egg - First Method: East Indian Version
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  • "Mysterious Ring and Egg Trick" (The Magazine of Magic, Vol. 1 No. 6, Mar. 1915, p. 168)
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Ring in Egg - Second Method: Standard Western Version
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Joseph Ovette Ring in Egg - Third Method: Ovette's Amplification ring, silk and egg vanish, all found nested in lemon
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  • "A Lemon - A Silk - An Egg" (Eggstraordinary Ways of Eggshibiting with Eggs, p. 26)
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The Orange, the Lemon, the Egg, and the Canary
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Routines
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Lew Biebigheiser With a Grain of Salt silk changes to egg, egg then broken into handkerchief bag, yellow ball taken out as well as egg white in shot glass and shell, all vanishes
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  • "Magic - with a Grain of Salt" (Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vol. XII No. 5, Oct. 1954, p. 193)
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W. Donald Forsyth The Caledonian Mystery egg appears, one-egg routine, egg vanishes, egg and hat routine in which more eggs appear, large egg climax
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  • David Devant, Secrets of My Magic, 1936, p. 222
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Alex De Vega The Changeable Egg egg appears, changes into many small eggs, they vanish, egg reappears and vanishes with glass a few times
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  • "The Wandering Egg" (The Sphinx, Vol. 16 No. 10, Dec. 1917, p. 195)
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Howard Albright The Spooky Egg "yes" and "no" written on egg to answer questions
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  • Howard Albright, Party Trix à la Carte, p. 10
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Frank Herman, Jack Yeager Happy Eggster egg coloring routine, chickens appear
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  • Genii, Vol. 16 No. 8, Apr. 1952, p. 304
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F. H. Jeudevine Pop's Egg Routine
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  • The Linking Ring, Vol. 22 No. 9, Nov. 1942, p. 41
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Robertson Keene Egg and Flag tissues burned, flag produced from ashes, changes to egg, egg broken, flag produced from broken egg
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  • More Novel Notions, p. 44
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Lawrenco Eggs-aggerated Tissue torn and restored tissue, changes to egg, egg broken and yellow silk produced from it
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  • The Wizard, Vol. 7 No. 82, Nov. 1954, p. 336
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George P. Moon The Enchanted Eggs eggs produced, one pushed into wine bottle, it comes back out red colored
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  • George P. Moon, How to Give a Conjuring Entertainment,1896, p. 25
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Edwin Hooper Eggs-tra-ordinary silk put in glass and covered, silk removed and changed to egg, silk back in glass, repeat, then silk in glass changed into third egg
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  • Edwin Hooper, Edwin's Magic Finale, 1991, p. 275
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Marcelo Contento Contento's Egg Routine egg in glass, covered with handkerchief, egg through handkerchief, changed into confetti, more eggs produced
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  • M-U-M, Vol. 82 No. 9, Feb. 1993, p. 25
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Nat. D. Kane Just a Dream baby chicken appears and vanishes, with egg
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U. F. Grant Hard Shell Sorcery using the Egg Cup, egg changes with silk in two egg cups
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An Illustration of Free Trade Principles elaborate routine with silk and egg
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Robert L. Henderson Eggs of the Magi silk to egg, egg penetrates another silk, chicken puppet produced from paper bag, wooden eggs fall out of it
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  • Genii, Vol. 17 No. 8, Apr. 1953, p. 317
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Donato Colucci Source Books bibliography on egg magic
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Data entered by Denis Behr, February 2021.