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Loose Thumb
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Effect |
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Supplies You Need:
Carrot
Handkerchief |
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You hold up your thumb, which is covered by a handkerchief. You offer it to someone in the audience, and the thumb comes away in their
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Set Up |
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Find a carrot that is about the same thickness as your thumb. Carefully cut off a piece about the length of your thumb and hide it in your hand.
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How to Perform
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Pick up the handkerchief and cover your hand with it. Move the carrot up so it sticks out and looks like your thumb from the outside. Tell someone in the
audience that your thumb has been feeling "loose" lately, and ask him or her to help "tighten" it. Hold out your arm and tell him or her to hold onto your thumb.
As soon as they're holding onto it, turn around like you forgot something, take a couple
of steps back pull your hand out from under the handkerchief with your thumb tucked into your fist.
Act surprised! They think they have your thumb!
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Hanky Stand-up
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Effect |
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Supplies You Need:
Handkerchief with a hem
Full length drinking straw
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Make a handkerchief move up and down at your command as if it is standing up. |
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Setup |
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Carefully flatten a drinking straw. Next sew the straw into the hem of a handkerchief. Make sure the straw can't move within the hem as show in Figure 1.
If your handkerchief does not have a seam, sew one in two of the sides. |
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How to Perform
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When you are ready to perform the trick, take the corner marked with an "A" in Figure 1 and tie a knot in that corner. Hold the handkerchief with your
right hand from the corner with the knot andlet it hang down.
Tell your audience you are going to make the handkerchief stand up. With your left hand take the middle of the handkerchief where corner "B" is, as shown in Figure 2, and let go of the
handkerchief with your right hand.
By slowly squeezing the straw with your thumb (this is the part you will need to practice), you can cause the handkerchief to slowly rise as if it is standing up as shown in Figure 3. As you do this tell the
audience that the handkerchief responds to your command. Say "Handkerchief-- Stand!" or other similar commands.
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