The Card And Handkerchief The following is a neat trick where a selected card visibly appears on a handkerchief held by the performer. A handkerchief is borrowed from some obliging male spectator and is, for the time being, spread on the performer's table. A card, say the Five of Diamonds, is placed on a plate and burned. Its ashes are loaded into a Magic Pistol, which is given to a spectator. The spectator is requested to discharge it at the performer when the latter commands. Fig 35 Taking the handkerchief by its four corners and holding it as shown in Fig. 35, the conjurer explains that when the pistol is fired the two corners of the handkerchief will be released. The performer illustrates this by actually dropping the two front corners of the latter, thus exposing the entire handkerchief and incidentally showing that nothing is attached to it. Seizing the corners again, the performer commands the spectator to fire. At the moment of releasing the corners, the restored Five of Diamonds is seen attached to the center of the handkerchief. After the card has been removed from it, the handkerchief is returned to its owner. Previous to the trick, a duplicate Five of Diamonds is placed face downwards on the conjurer's table. To the back of this card is fastened a small pellet of adhesive wax. In spreading the handkerchief on the table, the performer so arranges that the rear half of the handkerchief is placed directly over the hidden card and. By a little pressure, the card is made to adhere to the handkerchief. A Five of Diamonds is now forced and, after it is burned, its ashes are placed into the pistol and then given to a spectator to hold. In picking up the handkerchief, the conjurer folds the front half over the rear half and holds it as shown in Fig. 34, the Five of Diamonds being attached on the rear side of the half (CD) of the handkerchief and thus invisible from the front. In releasing the two corners in the explanation, the conjurer drops the front half (AB), thereby proving the handkerchief to be seemingly unprepared. Regaining possession of the two corners, the performer requests the spectator to fire and, at the proper moment, releases corners CD (the side of the handkerchief to which the card is attached). In removing the Five of Diamonds, the performer secretly scrapes off the small pellet of wax and carelessly throws the card on the table so that if anyone wants to examine the card, they can do so. Home | Card Tricks | Card Trick Skills | The Pass | The Force | Changes False Shuffling | The Glimpse | Card Palm | Card Sleights Copyright © 2003-2006 HowToDoCardTricks.com. All rights reserved worldwide.   You can quickly get a copy of every trick on this web site in a downloadable PDF book. That's over 40 classic card tricks to amaze and astound your friends, all stored on your computer to refer to at any time! Just click the link below to get your own copy today for just $5.