Oriental Conjuring and Magic by Will Ayling & Sam Sharpe

This ebook is almost an encyclopedia of Indian, Chinese and Japanese magic. It consists of two parts. The first part is an index, reference and bibliography compiled by Sam Sharpe. The second part, researched and written by Will Ayling, describes all 101 effects from Sharpe's index.

You will learn about fantastic effects such as buried alive, sword swallowing, pulse stopping and snake charming. But it is not all about geek magic. There is also a lot of close up magic, stage magic and illusions. The 101 effects described are:

1. The Psychology of the Indian Conjurer

2. The Bamboo Rods and Strings (The Hindu Wands)

3. The Indian Link Trick. The Chinese Rings.

4. The Indian Sands. The Colour Changing Sands.

5. Producing Marbles and Leaden Balls from the Mouth

6. The Cups and Balls

7. The Broken and Restored Cotton

8. The Mango Tree

9. The Indian Basket Trick

10. The Bunder Boat

11. The Suspended Bowl of Rice. The Suspended Prayer Vase.

12. The Ring on Wand

13. The Cut and Restored String or Turban

14. The Egg Bag

15. The Appearance of Marks on the Hand

16. The Diving Duck

17. The Indian Rope Trick

18. Production of Snakes and Crocodiles in a Cloud of Dust

19. Snake charming

20. Running a Dagger into the Cheek. Piercing the Tongue, and similar feats. (See 73, 83, 86)

21. The Aerial Suspension. The Sword Suspension. Human Levitation.

22. The Production of Sparrows from a Basket

23. To Make an Article Travel of its Own Accord

24. Threading Beads in the Mouth. The Needle Threading Trick.

25. Changing Beans into Snakes, or Stones into Scorpions.

26. Eating the Leaves of the Prickly Pear

27. Laying One's Stomach on the Edge of a Sword, and Sword Walking

28. Causing Blood to Flow and Stop Flowing from the Arm

29. Eating Pounded Glass, and Dancing on Glass

30. Swallowing Pebbles, etc.

31. Sabre Swallowing

32. Invulnerability to Red-hot Iron, and Fire Walking

33. The Chinese Marble Trick and Other Sleights

34. Fire Eating and Smoke Blowing

35. The Japanese Butterflies

36. The Japanese Picture

37. The Bowl of Water Production

38. The Jumping Plume. The Jumping China Rabbit. The Jumping Duck.

39. The Japanese Obedient Ball on String.

40. The Feast of Lanterns.

41. The Dancing Figure (Chinese?)

42. Ropes Through Neck, Ropes, Rings and Coat, and similar Tricks.

43. The Hindu Lota. The Ching Ling Foo Can.

44. Flower Changing into Goldfish in Cup.

45. Twenty Colour Changing Coins.

46. Torn and Restored Paper.

47. Buried Alive.

48. Japanese Magic Mirrors

49. The Indian Cooking Trick

50. Ball of Wool Swallowed and Reproduced from a Cut in the Stomach

51. The Human Stove

52. The Production of Coconuts from the Performer's Mouth

53. The Ten Ichi Thumb Tie

54. The Rice Bowls

55. The Vanishing Rice (Japanese)

56. Snowstorm in Japan. Plum Blossom in the Wind. Autumn Leaves.

57. Tissue Changed into an Egg (Max Sterling Egg)

58. Instantaneous Incubation

59. Coins and String

60. The Flying Chopstick

61. Production from Box

62. The Broken Chopstick

63. Suspended Cups of Water from Fan

64. Japanese Postcard Divination

65. Fire, Water and Globe of Goldfish Produced from Tub

66. Vanishing Rice From Cup

67. Tapping Stick in Bottle

68. Water Passed from Bottle to Bottle

69. Plate Spinning

70. Japanese Boiling Water Ordeal

71. Vanished Ring Found in Egg

72. Coin Changed into a Stone

73. A Stone Lifted by the Eyes or Tongue (see 20)

74. The Ten Ichi Water Fountains (Japanese)

75. Swallowing a Barrel of Water (Burmese)

76. Sleights with Chickens (Port Said)

77. Yogi Gold From Fire

78. The Zulu Obedient Floating Log

79. Summoning The Scents (Indian)

80. Pulse Control

81. The Han Ping Chien Coins

82. The Hindu Talisman

83. Padlock Through Cheek (See 86, 20)

84. The Chinese "Chefalo" Knot

85. The Jumping Egg

86. Knife Through Nose

87. Silks From Mouth

88. Ring Changes to another Ring and Lump of Metal

89. Colour Changing Slips of Paper and Water

90. Escape from Ropes and Sack

91. Various Changes in a Small Box

92. The Indian Bow Trick

93. Water Frozen in the Hand

94. The Organ Pipes

95. The Animated Leaves

96. Long Paper Ribbon From a Bowl of Shavings

97. Shower of Nuts from a Handkerchief

98. Magnetic Arrows

99. Dismembering and Re-articulating a Man

100. The Indian Nose Ring

101. The Japanese Ever-Flowing Kettle