Scottish Magic Tricks - In The Flames

In Scotland, Magic is an excellent way of entertaining your friends and family. It is also very useful in business and can be used as a great "ice-breaker" when meeting new business contacts.

In this trick, you will make someone's initials appear on the head of a burning match!

How The Trick Appears To The Audience
The Magician approaches someone whom he has never met before and gives him a lighted match. The Magician asks the person to hold the match, and while staring into the flame, concentrate on his initials. When the person blows out the match and looks at the head of the match, his initials are clearly burnt into the head of the match!

Requirements
A book of paper matches and a sharp pencil. You must also secretly find out the name of the person you intend to show the trick to.

The Setup
When no one is watching, bend one match out of the book of matches and write the persons initials on the inner side of the match head (the side facing towards the match book) using heavy pencil strokes.
When have done this push the match back into the book so everything appears normal.

The Performance
When the moment is right, approach the person and tell them that you would like show him a little experiment in mind over matter.

Open up the book of matches and remove the match with his initials.

Be careful to keep the side with his initials away from him, so no one can see your writing on the match head.

Light the match and give it to him.

Tell him to stare into the flame and concentrate on his initials.

After a few moments, ask him to blow out the match.

Ask him to confirm that you have never met before.

Now tell him to examine the head of the match.

He will be astonished to see his initials have appeared on the match head.

If you present this trick well, people will think you have just performed a miracle!


Michael Breck is a professional Magician and runs an Entertainment Agency in Scotland called The Magic Agency. He has been entertaining at weddings and booking entertainment for weddings for over twenty years. For more ideas about wedding entertainment go to Entertainment For Weddings and Events or Magical Entertainment.