Sub Rosa

Sub Rosa is a wonderfully deceptive and versatile technique that you can learn in seconds and master in minutes. It’s simple and direct, suitable for stage, parlour, and close-up, and is equally at home in magic and in mentalism. It has dozens of applications, such as:

Card or Bill in Cigarette
Coin in Bottle
Linking Finger Rings
Paper to Bills effects
colour separations
Colour-Changing Knives
predictions and divinations
paddle routines
Torn and Restored effects
Brema Nut and similar

and countless others. Over sixty effects of all kinds are included:

predictions and divinations
a card revelation
coincidence effects
key bending
card matching and a date revelation
design duplication
transpositions and transformations
book tests
Seven Keys and a Watch Box
a headline prediction
spirit writing and spirit photography
a Linking Pins finale

and much more. Many effects have fully scripted presentations: straight ones, humorous ones, even a couple of Bizarre ones. Themes include:

an experiment in an ESP lab
tattoos and voodoo
dead celebrities
a dead clown
the magic postal system
shopping for gifts
buying groceries
a murderer
a would-be student of divination
good luck charms, amulets and feng shui
a night on the town
what’s for dinner
holidays
school for spies
a murder mystery
a game show

and more. With the Sub Rosa technique, you can often use inexpensive, ordinary items instead of specialized apparatus to accomplish similar effects. Add it to your arsenal and open up a new world of strong yet easy-to-do magic. “… if everyone knew great magic could be done this easily, we would be out of business. Well done.” —Jim Byrnes