| Here is a great magic trick that will convince | | | | forearm, in ash. Obviously, they will be spellbound |
| almost anybody that you are connected to the | | | | beyond belief. |
| other side, and are gifted with great amounts of | | | | Here's the trick. Of course, you'll need a ball point |
| black magic. It's an up close trick, and requires a | | | | pen and small pad of paper. You will also need a |
| few basic materials, but they are so small you | | | | small container of dish soap. You can also use a |
| can easily carry them around in your pocket. A | | | | tube of chap stick or other lip balm. Make sure |
| bar, club, or friends house is a great place to do | | | | you give them a pen that has a ball point. When |
| this trick. | | | | they are showing whatever they've written to |
| Here's how the illusion looks to the audience. You | | | | their friends, you quickly read the impression |
| elicit the help of a participant, anyone you choose. | | | | which should have been made on the pad. This is |
| If you happen to be in a bar, and want to make | | | | why you need a ball point pen. A felt tip won't |
| an impression on a lady, this is a great way to | | | | push through enough, and won't leave an |
| get her phone number. Otherwise, anybody you | | | | impression. |
| want to choose is fine. | | | | Now you quickly dab the tip of your finger into |
| You get them to think of a single word. It can be | | | | the lip balm or the dish soap, and rapidly write the |
| anything. Being more creative and outlandish will | | | | word or number onto your forearm. Obviously, |
| only help you. If it's a girl or a guy you're after, | | | | you'll need to do some misdirection. You can tell |
| you can get them to think of their phone number. | | | | the audience that they need to memorize the |
| Some other things they can write is the name of | | | | word with great care, and then focus on it with all |
| their favorite spice, or their first grade teacher, or | | | | their might, or something similar. |
| anything else you can think of. | | | | Then when you get some ash from the burned |
| Then you hand them a small notepad, and a pen. | | | | paper and rub it on your arm, the word will |
| You tell them to write the name of whatever it is | | | | magically stand out, as the ash will naturally stick |
| they have thought of on the notepad. Then they | | | | to the dish soap or the lip balm. They will be |
| show this to their friends, making sure not to let | | | | amazed, you will be regarded as a magical genius, |
| you see what they've written. Then they crumple | | | | and if you are after her phone number, you've |
| the paper up, put it in an ashtray, and then burn it | | | | obviously got it, and she'll be duly impressed. |
| to ash. Then you reach over, get some of the | | | | To quickly and easily learn powerfully impressive |
| ash on your fingers, and then rub across your | | | | magic that will have you at the center of |
| forearm. By the powers of black magic and your | | | | attention at every party or social gathering, head |
| psychic powers of projection, whatever they | | | | on over to magic tricks revealed today. |
| wrote on the paper will not be spelled out on your | | | | |