Mimetics of SOCS3

1. With a card or cards palmed in the right hand, the pack is out of the hands on the table. The right hand is placed into the left hand which curls around the right hand in a sort of clasping posi-tion as in Figure 36. The palmed cards should not lie beyond the left forefinger when the two hands are together as pic-tured.

Figure 36

2. The right hand now goes through a slight rubbing motion against the left palm. During this, the right fingers press the palmed packet into the left hand, and the left fingers curl around the sides of the cards.

3. Both hands now separate, the left hand turns inwards, just before the right hand is taken away. The left hand then drops to the side. The packet is now in the left hand in a position across the palm as in Figure 37 and is completely hidden from the front as this hand hangs alongside the left thigh.

Figure 37

4. To transfer the cards back to the right hand is just as simple. Both hands come together again as in Figure 36 when the right hand can re-palm the packet by

merely curling the right hand around them. From here the cards can be added back on top of the pack.

The Easy Transfer can be used with the Shuffle Palm. Naturally the Shuffle will place the cards, in approximately the desired position, in the left hand. From here the hands can be brought together, as in Figure 36, the cards being trans-ferred to the regulation palm in the right hand. It is an easy matter to later return the cards to the pack by any one of the replacements previously discussed.

The Fake Transfer

At times merely rubbing the hands together while keeping the palmed or cards, in the original hand is an aid in misdirection. The process simply con-sists of bringing the hands together as in Figure 36, rubbing them and dropping them back to the sides with cards still in the original palm, either left or right.

Although mention has been made of dropping the hands to the side, it is assumed that they will not remain there for any length of time as any one of the methods for Holding Out should be used to lend an air of ease. Also, mention has been made in several of the Palms and Replacements about, "Brushing away an imaginary speck of This

mean that one should go around finding dirt at every turn in a host's home, Misdirection of this type should be used sparingly and with discretion. Applying one or two of them to a favorite

is probably the best way to utilize these things.

Card From Pocket Ideas The object of this move is to palm a card in the right hand, then go to produce it from the left inside coat pocket, then suddenly changing your mind instead the card is produced from the Right Inside Coat Pocket. A bit later on we will describe how to handle this idea with two cards but first the mechanics

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WITH TWO CARDS for a single card. The following bit of

chi-canery will fool the best of them because something they don't expect.

1. Let us assume the selected card has been palmed in the right hand.

2. The left hand grasps the left lapel of the coat in order to more or less open the coat so that the right hand can enter on that side. A perfectly natural action made many times by the male gentry to remove a wallet, pencil, pen, etc.

3. The right hand enters under this side of the coat at the same time the name of the card is asked for.

4. As the spectator names the card the performer is busy getting the palmed card from the right hand and placing it into the left hand fingers that are curled around the coat. In other words the left hand's four fingertips now have the card clipped against the coat and directly in line with the palm.

5. Immediately on hearing the name of the card, the empty right hand comes out and gestures, palm towards audi-ence as performer says, I'm sorry but that card is over in this pocket."

6. As the last words are being spoken the right hand grasps the right lapel in a position similar to that of the left.

7. The right hand pulls open the right side of coat in the approved manner. At the same time the left hand travels across the chest, taking the palm-clipped card along into the right side of the coat.

8. When the left hand is under the right side of coat the clipped card is brought to the fingertips of the left hand and then it is produced as the selected card.

9. The object, as one can readily see, is to palm a card in the right hand yet a moment later produce it from a pocket with the left hand. If you start with a

card palmed in the left hand then, of course, the opposite holds true.

Two Cards

This is the second idea along the same lines and is very effective when used in with Cards to Pocket or the Four Aces to the pocket or even two selected cards to the pocket. By this feint and with only one palm two cards can be produced from two different pockets.

Assume you have two cards palmed in the right hand.

2. The left hand grasps the left lapel as in the above description.

3. The right hand enters the coat on the left side and quickly deposits both cards into the left hand clip position.

4. The right hand now removes one of these cards and reproduces it from under the left side of the coat.

5. Keeping this card in the right hand, or merely tossing it aside, the right hand now grasps the right side of coat and the left hand travels across with its palm clipped card and reproduces its cards from under the right side of the coat.

Thus with one palm you have produced two cards from two different pockets.

We use the above two card ideas in a card to pocket routine for the vanish and reproduction of the last two cards. Also we have evolved several Aces to Pocket Routines which utilizes this idea. We mention this for those students who may wish to do likewise and experiment along these lines. In conclusion it is hoped that the will find much he can use from this chapter on Palming.

This now brings us to the conclusion of our second chapter on

Card Technique.

yours, Edward Mario