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Hi everyone,

A few days ago I was reading a book with a clever little routine in and I thought "I'll read up on that later" and now I cannot for the life of me remember where I read it. I remember the basic handling but nothing else and I'm starting to wonder if I imagined it.

The routine was linking of keyrings (just the ring parts), and the effect was a small glass or bowl with loose key ring loops in, which are picked up and displayed separately before being threaded onto the right thumb. The rings are then dumped off the thumb back into the container and when they're lifted out next they're all linked together.

I have flicked back through the main things I've been reading over the past week, expecting to find it in there and it's not there. I'm starting to think it might have been in an old second hand book I flicked through at the last Pentacle Club meeting and forgot to buy along with the other two I picked up.

Does anyone know the origin of the effect I'm thinking of?

-Stacy

Sorry can't help, have you tried searching through the Tarbell encyclopedia because it really sounds like something that would be in there. But I can't be sure.

Jay Sankey has a DVD out on this..I do not know if he ever wrote a book with it in.
He first experimented with the idea in the 80's

Allen Tipton

I know of the Jay Sankey DVD (though I've never seen it), Three Ring Circus, but this isn't that.

I'm actually thinking now that I might have read it in a back issue of Abra I was flicking through a week ago. Need to go have a look through them again.

-Stacy

And just as I suspected, there it is.
incase anyone was interested its in Abra Cadabra volume 127, Pentcle Club 90th anniversary special edition.

David Girling's Linking Keyrings.

-Stacy

Glad you found it Stacy. It is on page 243. Issue is dated 10th. January 2009!
Most of my Abras have gone to my son in Portugal. Just 50 left to send, the first dozen editiions and 3 bound early Volumes.

Chris Dugdale says in his book, 'Psychological Apploications for Magicians 11- 'if you have a problem in life and have thought about it over & over, without much success--use secon level processing. Chill out and forget about the whole thing. Suddenly out of the blue the answer comes straight into your head as if from nowhere. As if by magic '.

My wife and I with names/titles etc. for instance often go through the alphabet to see if the forgotten thing might jolt into the head on each letter. Sometimes the name comes immediately but more often than not--it 'jolts into the head out of the blue', when we have let the thought go.

Allen Tipton