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S.O.S. Bag

Osterlind, Richard

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Here's what the audience sees: The mentalist displays a black, cloth bag and asks five members of the audience to decide on some personal object they have on their possession. Approaching each person, the performer looks away and has each drop his or her object into the bag. Shaking the bag to mix the items, the mentalist reaches in and withdraws one. Using his powers, he deduces certain characteristics of the owner and then returns it to the proper person. This continues with four of the five items. Obviously knowing the owner of the final object, the mentalist proposes a different test. Without taking out or looking at the object, he correctly divines what it is before removing and returning it.
The diabolical secret is all an integral part of the specially-crafted, handmade bag. This is not a craft store item reworked to do a magic trick. The S.O.S. Bag went through several modifications to arrive at the present design. Almost a foot square in size, each is handmade from a durable black fabric that will last a lifetime. More than a trick, the S.O.S. Bag is an act in itself, allowing for limitless presentational possibilities.

Includes custom-made cloth bag, photo-illustrated instructions & performance tips

Reviews

RonMartin

Jul 16, 2005

This truly IS an act in itself. I've used other (multiple) bags for psychometry, but I've put them away now.
When you look the bag over, you'll slap your forehead and wonder why YOU didn't think of this, it's so damned clever!
Of course, one should have some cold reading experience in order to do a quickie 'reading' of the person who's item you've taken out of the bag. (Altho, as you KNOW which spectator it is, you are already half way there.) Due to the construction of this bag, you can even choose which spectator's item to take from the bag.

There are, for thinking mentalists, more uses for this bag. Think about billets and one ahead, switches of billets, or forcing billets. There is more here than meets the eye; I expect someone will come up with a book detailing other uses for this well made prop.
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