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Ted Lesley - Psychokinetic Banknight

Columnist: Ted Lesley PSYCHOKINETIC BANKNIGHT By Ted Lesley In a recent “Vibrations”, the magazine of the “Psychic Entertainer’s Association” I found an effect which immediately drew my attention. In an article by my good friend Docc Hilford from Florida he explained parts of his “bizarre” show. Amongst the effects he described was a “bank night”-routine, which he didn’t explain, because he sells the complete trick...
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Ted Lesley - Symbolico

Columnist: Ted Lesley LET’S TAKE a look at a totally new forcing deck–based on the principles of the Bagshawe forcing pack–that I use with great success in my stage act. The deck is described here for the first time. For about seven years, I have used as a forcing device a jumbo deck that is printed with symbols instead of card faces. It contains two groups of eight symbols, for a total of sixteen cards. One set fr...
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Ted Lesley - "teleport Professional"

Columnist: Ted Lesley (Ted Lesley) A BRIEF HISTORY: This, like many of Ted Lesley’s items, is an untility prop. Baldly stated, it is a special two-compartment switching-envelope, but it has some remarkable features. Many years ago, in 1981, Ted described an early version of this envelope in the German periodical “MAGISCHE WELT” but we have never seen or heard of another mentalist or magician using it. This once aga...
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Ted Lesley - The "ball-point"-swami

Columnist: Ted Lesley Using a pencil for a “Swami” effect, is in my opinion outdated for today’s audiences. To the same conclusion came a fellow mentalist from Switzerland, the late PAUL MAURER. In 1985 he invented a “ball-point thumb writer”. This “Swami Gimmick” was brought to my attention a couple of years ago by a German mentalist, Mr. Ulf Bolling Borodin, who used it long before it was put on the market by the...
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Ted Lesley - The Box

Columnist: Ted Lesley The Box By Ted Lesley Ever since I was young I’ve had Corinda’s book “13 Steps To Mentalism” in my library, which is still one of my favourite sources for interesting material. In step No 4 “Predictions” of the aforementioned tome on pages 105 to 107 you’ll find an item called “DE PROFUNDIS”, which is in my humble opinion one of the best prediction effects for stage, cabaret and parlour. It is s...
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