Houdini's Paper Magic

Houdini on everything you can do with paper: torn and restored tricks, paper folding, tearing designs and puzzles.

What’s inside

1. Paper tricks — the travelling paper balls, ring and program, the cigarette-paper tear, the torn paper ribbon
2. More paper tricks — the restored calendar, the spirit communication, the floating ball, the Japanese butterflies
3. Confetti tricks — the chameleon confetti, production of confetti, watered confetti
4. Tests and finishes — the ballot or pellet test, paper clippings and water, Werner’s bill tearing trick
5. Paper folding — the Japanese bird, the bullfrog, trouble wit, the chapeau, puzzle boxes
6. Paper tearing — Trewey’s paper rings, Jacob’s ladder, the dancing skeletons, Grandma’s string of dolls
7. Paper pictures and designs — circular designs, the five-pointed star, tearing the pack
8. Paper puzzles — the symmetrical square, the Latin cross, the Greek cross, the Liberty Bell, to pass through a card

Harry Houdini, 1922 · E. P. Dutton & Company. Complete 229-page PDF. Free to download: check out at $0 and the file arrives by email and on your order page.

This classic is in the public domain. Scans come from library copies, so expect the odd stain or stamp of an old book.