Instructions / Assembly

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SECRET SETUP: Assemble and attach the vanisher to your jacket as in the Secret Setup of the
Handkerchief Vanisher trick. Start your performance with the Vanisher secretly held in your closed hand.
SHOW:
1. Hold the Vanisher in your fist and turn slightly to one side so that the back of your fist is facing the
audience. This will help hide the vanisher. Make sure the elastic should be hidden as well (extending down
your wrist and into your jacket/shirt).
2. Use your other hand to remove the dollar bill from your pocket.
3. Push the dollar bill into your fist. Secretly, you’re pushing it into the vanisher.
4. Keeping your hand in a fist, let go of the vanisher. The vanisher (containing the dollar bill) will spring
back inside your jacket. As you let go, bring both closed hands forward as though you are still holding the
dollar bill. Open your hand and show that it has disappeared. Your audience will be astounded!
23. DISAPPEARING SALT
Make salt placed into a handkerchief disappear!
PROPS USED: Thumb Tip
SUPPLIES NEEDED: Handkerchief, salt
THE SECRET: You use your thumb tip to secretly remove the salt.
SECRET SETUP: Have some salt and a handkerchief ready. Put the thumb tip in a pocket.
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SHOW:
1. Reach into your pocket and secretly slip the thumb tip onto your thumb. Place the handkerchief over the
fist of your other hand.
2. Say, “I’ll make a little hole in the handkerchief with my thumb.” Push your thumb into the handkerchief,
leaving the thumb tip in it. See FIGURE 1. You will be holding the thumb tip through the handkerchief.
3. Ask a volunteer to pour a little salt into the handkerchief. See FIGURE 2. Be careful not to let the
volunteer see the thumb tip!
4. Say, “I’ll pack the salt down well.” Push your thumb into the handkerchief, inserting your thumb into the
thumb tip.
As you push your thumb into the handkerchief, insert it firmly into the thumb tip.
5. Ask a volunteer to hold out the palms of her hands “to catch the salt.” Take hold of the handkerchief
with your thumb tip hidden behind it. See FIGURE 3.
6. Shake the empty handkerchief into the volunteer's hands. The salt has vanished!
24. SALT TO PEPPER
Drop some salt into a handkerchief and it changes into pepper!
PROPS USED: Thumb Tip
SUPPLIES NEEDED: Salt, pepper (whole peppercorns)
THE SECRET: You use your thumb tip to secretly remove the salt and replace it with pepper.
SECRET SETUP: Prepare yourself as you did for the Disappearing Salt trick (page 18). In addition,
secretly store some whole pepper corns in the same pocket as the thumb tip (but not IN the thumb tip).
SHOW: Follow exactly instructions 1 – 4 for Disappearing Salt. Before proceeding to number 5, secretly
take the pepper out of your pocket with the hand that will go into the handkerchief. Push your thumb down