Grimshaw wrote:I've never understood the reason for people rejecting the nine of diamonds in Vernon's Mental Force trick. The book states that its widely considered an unlucky card but up until I first read that in the book I'd never heard of any superstitious stigma attached to that card.
It's known as "the curse of Scotland" apparently. I've never met anyone who's known it as that, but it's in books, so it must be true...
I do a whole bizarre routine around it, plenty of scope for imagination...
