Broom

22 entries in Broom
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
, Robert Heller Method No. 1. Packet of Duplicate Cards Concealed on the Table Duplicates of Forced Cards Rise, several variations and presentational ideas:
  • With an Assistant and without
  • By Fanning the Deck
  • Pip Change
  • Addressing the Queen
  • Card Rises Reversed then Turns Around
  • The Blank Card Gag
  • The Broomstick Rise (by Robert Heller)
  • With a Silk in the Glass
 		1938
Greater Magic
377
The Porous Broomstick rope through broomstick
 		1938
Greater Magic
850
Laurie Ireland Card and Whiskbroom cards thrown into air and card caught with a whiskbroom
 		1940
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1940)
3
Broom (1)
  • Martin Gardner’s Encyclopedia of Impromptu Tricks
balancing broom on floor
 		July 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 9 No. 2)
815
Broom (2)
  • Martin Gardner’s Encyclopedia of Impromptu Tricks
practical joke, broom holds pan of water against ceiling
 		July 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 9 No. 2)
815
Broom (3)
  • Martin Gardner’s Encyclopedia of Impromptu Tricks
kicking broom away, practical joke
 		July 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 9 No. 2)
815
Broom (4)
  • Martin Gardner’s Encyclopedia of Impromptu Tricks
going "through" a broom, holding broom with both hands
 		July 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 9 No. 2)
815
Broom (5)
  • Martin Gardner’s Encyclopedia of Impromptu Tricks
passing body under broom, without letting go
 		July 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 9 No. 2)
815
Broom (6)
  • Martin Gardner’s Encyclopedia of Impromptu Tricks
grip test with broom, to people hold broom and lower it without turning it
 		July 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 9 No. 2)
815
Broom (7)
  • Martin Gardner’s Encyclopedia of Impromptu Tricks
jumping over broom while holding it
 		July 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 9 No. 2)
815
Broom (8)
  • Martin Gardner’s Encyclopedia of Impromptu Tricks
jugglery and balance with broom
 		July 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 9 No. 2)
815
Broom (9)
  • Martin Gardner’s Encyclopedia of Impromptu Tricks
party game with a broom
 		July 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 9 No. 2)
819
Broom (10)
  • Martin Gardner’s Encyclopedia of Impromptu Tricks
Lulu Hurst Balance Test
 		July 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 9 No. 2)
819
Broom (11)
  • Martin Gardner’s Encyclopedia of Impromptu Tricks
Lulu Hurst's downward push test
 		July 1951
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 9 No. 2)
819
Jack Bateman Floating Witch's Broom dancing cane, with broom
 		1970
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1969-70)
19
Martin Gardner Brush Gag apparently brushing spectator's jacket
Related to
  • Whisk Broom Nr.2 in Martin Gardner's "Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic" p.570
 1973
Thanks to Pepys...
27
Karrell Fox The Great, "Broom-Schtick" Illusion gag, brushing off dust from spectator's jacket
 		1979
Another Book
315
Whisk Away No. 77, two spectators, one touched on back with whisk broom other reacts
 		1981
Self-Working Table Magic
95
Robert Gysel The Suspended Wand, Cane or Broom No. 6, gimmick
 		1983
101 Psychic Tests
3
Besen four impromptu magic items and gags with brooms
 		Dec. 1986
Intermagic (Vol. 12 No. 3 & 4)
118
Steve "Banachek" Shaw Clean Sweap broom caused to stand on end and falls on command
 		1998
Syzygy (Vol. 4 No. 7)
295
Andrew Mayne BroomFlight towel on broom, performer seems to levitate
 		2003
Touching Sky
6