# The Trick Brain ## Metadata * Author: [Dariel Fitzkee](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B0050ZKREE * ISBN: 1614278970 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050ZKREE * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE) ## Highlights THE NINETEEN BASIC EFFECTS 1—Production (Appearance, creation, multiplication) 2—Vanish (Disappearance, obliteration) 3—Transposition (Change in location) 4—Transformation (Change in appearance, character or identity) 5—Penetration (One solid through another) 6—Restoration (Making the destroyed whole) 7—Animation (Movement imparted to the inanimate) 8—Anti-Gravity (Levitation and change in weight) 9—Attraction (Mysterious adhesion) 10—Sympathetic Reaction (Sympathetic response) 11—Invulnerability (Injury proof) 12—Physical Anomaly (Contradictions, abnormalities, freaks) 13—Spectator Failure (Magicians’ challenge) 14—Control (Mind over the inanimate) 15—Identification (Specific discovery) 16—Thought Reading (Mental perception, mind reading) 17—Thought Transmission (Thought projection and transference) 18—Prediction (Foretelling the future) 19—Extra-Sensory Perception (Unusual perception, other than mind) In looking over this list it may be noticed that the effects start with physical accomplishments, gradually change to those of mental control and culminate in a number of divisions — location: [468](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=468) ^ref-41038 --- Effect No. 1—PRODUCTION. The production of a person or an object where nothing appeared before. Something is caused to come into view without apparent clue as to the source. It may be suggested that — location: [507](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=507) ^ref-45888 --- Effect No. 2—VANISH. The causing of something to pass from sight by apparently unnatural means. — location: [520](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=520) ^ref-46253 --- Effect No. 3—TRANSPOSITION. Invisible change in location of a person or an object from one place to another. — location: [529](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=529) ^ref-31745 --- Effect No. 4—TRANSFORMATION. A person or an object changes identity, color, size, shape, character, etc. — location: [539](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=539) ^ref-6893 --- . Effect No. 4—TRANSFORMATION. A person or an object changes identity, color, size, shape, character, etc. — location: [539](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=539) ^ref-828 --- Effect No. 5—PENETRATION. The solid matter of one person or object or thing penetrates the solid matter of another person, object or thing. — location: [546](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=546) ^ref-23205 --- Effect No. 6—RESTORATION. The subject of the effect is wholly or partially destroyed and subsequently restored to its original condition. — location: [554](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=554) ^ref-22818 --- Effect No. 7—ANIMATION. An inanimate object is mysteriously endowed with movement. — location: [560](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=560) ^ref-47183 --- Effect No. 8—ANTI-GRAVITY. The person or thing reacts contrary to the laws of gravity. — location: [568](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=568) ^ref-26143 --- Effect No. 9—ATTRACTION. Through some mysterious power the magician becomes, or causes something or someone else to become endowed with a power resembling magnetism. — location: [583](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=583) ^ref-25411 --- Effect No. 10—SYMPATHETIC REACTION. A reaction of two or more persons, objects or persons and objects, showing sympathetic accord in harmony one with the other. Here two or more — location: [589](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=589) ^ref-30360 --- Effect No. 11—INVULNERABILITY. Demonstrations of resistance or proof against injury. — location: [600](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=600) ^ref-41053 --- Effect No. 12—PHYSICAL ANOMALY. Exceptions or contradictions to normal physical rules or reactions. — location: [608](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=608) ^ref-43973 --- Effect No. 13—SPECTATOR FAILURE. This includes all tricks where a spectator is unable to accomplish some apparently simple objective, implying the intervention of some mysterious power of the magician. — location: [616](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=616) ^ref-41686 --- Effect No. 14—CONTROL. All effects where the mind of the performer seems to dominate, whether the subject be animate or inanimate. — location: [624](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=624) ^ref-42695 --- Effect No. 15—IDENTIFICATION. Here discovery of an identity, regardless of the method of disclosure, is essential. — location: [634](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=634) ^ref-52064 --- Effect No. 16—THOUGHT READING. In this division the essential is that the performer apparently reads the thought of another. — location: [649](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=649) ^ref-15219 --- Effect No. 17—THOUGHT TRANSMISSION. The essential is the projection of thought. In the former effect, another’s mind is “read.” In this effect, one person projects his thought to another. — location: [659](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=659) ^ref-51454 --- Effect No. 18—PREDICTION. This includes all tricks where the future is foretold. — location: [673](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=673) ^ref-62188 --- Effect No. 19—EXTRA-SENSORY PERCEPTION. This classification is intended to include all types of abnormal perception other than through mental communication. — location: [680](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0050ZKREE&location=680) ^ref-56172 ---