Lessons in Conjuring |
Common terms and phrases
antimacassar apparently borrowed bottom card trick cardboard centre changing tube close coat coins concealed conjurer asks conjurer holds conjurer merely conjurer picks conjurer puts conjurer takes corner count course cricket bat cups and balls dinner jacket drawer drawer-box drops facing the audience false finger finger and thumb flowers folded fourth ball glass going handker handkerchief held hidden inside introduces the palmed jurer kerchief knot learner left hand lifts loop of thread magical method middle cup movement nest of envelopes outer palmed ball paper tube parcel pass patter performer pieces of braid placed plate pull pushes putting the cup right hand rings round ruler says the conjurer sealing-wax second cup second finger secret compartment secretly introduces shilling side silk six cards sleeve slip small cards stage tell the audience third fingers three cards trick turns twelve cards waistcoat wand watch