When you’ve been playing with magic tricks for 50 years it gets pretty hard to bother to add one more item to your regular performing roster. But Freak by Dave Forrest is easily one that I could see myself doing. Dave is a smart guy with some very clever ideas and if you look at how much nuance he jams into what seems like pretty basic props you’ll agree with me.
This effect requires a little bit of one-time prep work when you get it (tear in half three pictures, a tiny bit of gluing, 3 scratches on some cards, and a cut a tiny hole in some paper). But also if you want to change or upgrade any part (the pictures, the names, the envelope, the story) all are possible, and you’ll still be left with the very clever structure that Dave has devised.
You have to listen to Dave explain the method and you’ll immediately appreciate this beauty.
I have zero time these days to add any new effects to my performances and this was going straight into my auction next month, but I have decided to keep it and perform it one day hopefully soon. It is easy to do, very convincing and can easily be modified to suit a lot of presentations.
Thanks for putting the effort in Dave – you have a real miracle here and I look forward to performing it soon in the Porcupine 🙂
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