Whispers - Jon Racherbaumer

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This treatise is a detailed exploration of a glorified location-divination, framed by a whimsical conceit – namely that an inanimate object – a playing card – is the supposed agency that makes the entire trick work. In this regard it was an effort to upgrade an essentially puerile divination effect.

Here is the basic approach or plot: The way the performer learns the identity of a freely selected card is apparently due to enlisting the assistance of another playing card (usually a Queen), which whispers the name of the selection to the magician. The magician then acts as the Queen's proxy and audibly names the selection.

• Introduction

• Ladson Butler

• The Joker Tells (Ladson Butler)

• After The Initial Seed Was Sown

• The Whispering Queen (Harry "Louine")

• The Wise Queen (Thurston)

• Whispering Queen (Harry Kellar)

• Whispering Queen (Joseph Leeming)

• The Wise Queen (Joseph Leeming)

• The Whispering Queen (Edward Victor)

• Card Voice (Ted Annemann)

• The Whispering Queen (Edward Marlo)

• The Snappy Whispering Queen (Jon Racherbaumer)

• Stage Shout (Roy Walton)

• Cries And Whispers (John Bannon)

• Scries And Whispers II (Jon Racherbaumer)

• The Queen Whispers And Whisks Away (Jon Racherbaumer)

• The Whispering Joker (Paul Curry)

• The Joker Reads Minds (Edward Marlo)

1st edition 2019, 50 pages.