In this recorded LIVE video chat session, I very briefly tell the story of how I first came to love magic and how I got started as a magician ( I was "tricked" into it!}.  Seriously, I perform a few fun magic tricks for the audience, explain how I do the tricks, and then answer questions.  I also teach the audience how to do a couple of easy magic tricks!

Click the link below for free access to this ebook (PDF file): 

https://juliusmagic.webs.com/Howard%20Thurston%20400%20Tricks.pdf

You will find effects with cards, coins, silks, liquid, eggs, balls, and misc. other items.  Enjoy and be sur...

The Value of Magic as a Teaching Tool - Free PDF Teaching Tool

The Nelsons have put together a nice 25 page PDF to faciliate teaching magic to kids of all ages. Although the effects they teach are not difficult, they do serve to make their point. There are a couple of detailed articles about magic and several lists of interest to magicians. Nothing to download. The PDF will open when you click the link. Since it's designed for printing and freely distributing...

Do you feel inspired to learn more about magic as a performing art o hobby?

Do you want to perform magical illusions yourself?

Now, you can teach yourself how to perform magic!

The world of magic first captivated Julius at a very young age. When he was a very young boy, his parents owned a Hungarian restaurant in New York City where he was born, and one day a butcher delivered a pig to her, carrying it over his shoulder. 

Awed by the...

As a result of learning magic, people of all ages can:

have fun

help heal people

earn better grades

Few people know about the therapeutic, rehabilitative healing power of magic available through programs like David Copperfield's PROJECT MAGIC and Kevin Spencer's HEALING of MAGIC:

David Copperfield's Project Magic is a program designed to give the gift of magic to people...

To create the best possible kids' & family magic show experience and maximize everyone's enjoyment of the performance, please take a moment to review these general Magic Show Party Success Tips and share them with anyone who will be helping you with your party:

The performance area:

Set Up - I will a...

Close-Up Magic - Sleight-of-hand magic, also known as prestidigitation ("quick fingers") or léger de main (Fr., "lightness of hand") to secretly manipulate small objects such as sponge balls, cards and coins.  A magician  performs close-up magic in an intimate setting usually no more than a ten-foot (three-meter) distance from the audience with the party guests all around him.   The magic happens right in front of you "in your hands."  This performance is...

Harry Houdini, born Ehrich Weiss on April 6, 1874, in Budapest, Hungary, was the son of Dr. Mayer Samuel Weiss, a Jewish rabbi, and Cecilia Steiner Weiss. He legally changed his name in 1913.

Houdini is said to be one of the most influential magicians of the 20th century....

If you were to weigh the benefits of learning how to perform magic illusions against buying another video game the comparison becomes clear. Learning Magic with your child can pay back immensely over the course of a lifetime! What benefits does another video game offer?

The last thing you want is to frustrate your child with magic tricks that are too complicated for you...

Have you ever felt wonder during and after a magic performance?

Can you remember the first time you saw a magical illusion?

Do you remember believing that real magic was happening?  Or were you skeptical?

You may have even dreamed about being able to do magic and having superpow...

When you start to learn magic and gegin to amaze and delight your friends and family, many of them will beg and plead for you to reveal the secret. 

You will feel tempted to tell them how it's done.  Of course, you will not share the secret with them. 

That would take all the mystery, wonderment and magic out ...