Lecture Notes #11

1989
Written by Father Cyprian
Work of Father Cyprian
35 pages (Stapled), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings
Language: English
18 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Father Cyprian The Act four cards chosen and signed by four spectators
  • Part I: Torn and Restored Card (first selection torn and flash-restored, "Nostalgia Torn & Restored Card")
  • Part II: Card Stab (other three selections replaced, two found by stabbing the paper-wrapped deck with a dagger)
  • Part III: Card in Wallet (last card found in wallet)
Related to 1
Father Cyprian A New Angle on actions taking place on a diagonal
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Father Cyprian Diabolical Card Control method to angle-jog the bottom card of the top half as it is replaced
Inspired byAlso published here
  • on VHS video in 1982
 15
Father Cyprian Card Rise from the Center of the Deck get-ready for plunger rise
  • Addenda
    • A) Multiple Rise (two selections rise one by one)
    • B) Rise and Transformation (out-jogged risen card changes)
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A Peek, A Couple of Breaks and A Double From a Tabled Cut
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Father Cyprian A Peek using hidden plunger rise to peek a card
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Father Cyprian A Couple of Breaks using a hidden plunger rise set-up to establish breaks
  • a) To cut the selected card to second from the top
  • b) To cut the selected card to second from the bottom
  • c) To cut the selected card to the top
  • d) To cut the selection to the face of the deck
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Father Cyprian A Double from a Tabled Cut jog set-up
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Father Cyprian Another Double from a Tabled Cut jog set-up
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Father Cyprian A Sad Story brass ring taken from ring box, it vanishes from wand and travels to pocket several times, then vanishes from paper and reappears in ring box
Inspired by
  • "Ring Off The Wand" (Cyprian, Lecture #8, Stand Up Close, 1980)
 22
Father Cyprian High Rollers (A Dice Opener) two in the hand one in the pocket, using Lin Searles squashed die and pop-up die under close-up mat, six phases
Also published here 25
Father Cyprian Four Aces Plus Triumph Revisited four Aces produced from spots where spectator stops, Aces lost and deck shuffled face-up/face-down, all one way again except Aces
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Father Cyprian Double Roll-Over Force top half rolled over completely, bottom one as well, one card from each half thumbed off
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Hofzinser Revisited
28
Father Cyprian Hats Off to Hofzinser selection lost in deck, packet of Aces transforms into single selection
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Father Cyprian New Hofzinser Four Aces
29
Father Cyprian Mirror Aces
  • Card Vanish From a Glass
card or packet of cards vanishes from wine glass and is found reversed in deck or something else
  • I
  • II (using gaffed card with mirror surface)
  • III (card travels into another glass)
  • IV To change for Aces into a selected card
Inspired by 31
Father Cyprian "If I Were a Psychic" spectator chooses a four with longer elimination process, performer cuts one half into three piles, face cards don't match but bottom cards are mates of selection
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Data entered by Denis Behr, May 2024.