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Der Shattenjaeger – The Shadow Hunter

They might be giants.

- Cervantes, Don Quixote

Absolute authenticity of detail is essential to our work.

Anything less is mere quackery.

- The Magic Christian

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Schattenjaeger’s Workshop

Dr. Crow’s Book of Numbers

Bandaged

The Paradigm Deck

Vision Quest (The Schattenjaeger’s Cards)

The Jam Readings - “Ragtime Mentalism”

The Schattenjaeger’s Workshop

One of his secrets is the knowledge that everyday objects are really effects whose instructions

have been lost. A glass object on a supermarket shelf might look like a jelly jar, for example, but is that

what it really is? He looks at the fluted glass sides that distort the appearance of the contents and

realizes that it is a cleverly disguised secret device. He asks himself, “How does it work?”

At the checkout counter, while he is waiting to purchase his new discovery, he carefully peruses

the mini-magazines that purport to reveal the secrets of numerology and how to harness your psychic

powers. Are they simply pieces of bait to hook the gullible, or do they have another purpose? He looks

behind their tacky facade and sees what they are really for.

His own appearance is equally deceptive. Most people assume he’s dangerously psychotic.

They are wrong.

He is the Schattenjaeger. His workshop is everywhere.

Dr. Crow’s Book of Numbers

Every two weeks or so, a company called American Media Mini Mags, of Boca Raton, Florida,

delivers yet another publication to supermarket checkout counters throughout the country. Featuring

such titles as “Is Your Pet Psychic?” “Are You Psychic?” “How to Talk to Your Cat” and “Everyone is

Psychic Except You”, these and similar “mini-mags” have become commonplace..

“Dr. Crow’s Book of Numbers” is a mentalist’s utility device that appears to be just another of

these ubiquitous releases. It is a sixty-six-page booklet, which you can easily print out on your

computer. (Separate .pdf and .doc files, ready for printing, are included in the file that contains this

eBook, as are full size versions of the front and back covers.)

Here are the covers and the first few pages from the booklet:

The booklet is 4 inches by 6

inches in size. The pages are printed

on blank index card stock. (You can

do them on newsprint if you want to

make the book look exactly like the

supermarket versions. I prefer the

cardstock as I use the booklet in a

platform routine in which it is only

handled by one person. The card

stock makes the book somewhat

more durable.

The covers are printed in color

on glossy photo paper. (You may

prefer to have these done at your

local print shop.)

The next several pages continue in this manner,

giving the meanings for each of the “name numbers”.

(The actual pages, contained in the files accompanying

this eBook, are formatted with headers, footers,

appropriate margins, and gutters)

The remainder of the book consists of entries for

every day in the year. These correspond with your

volunteer’s birthday and contain his lucky number

combination and lucky color.

Following are some of the entries from the

“January” section of the book -

very day of the year has a different six-digit lucky

number combination and is assigned one of nine

different colors – the seven colors of the spectrum

plus “black” and “white.”

Again, look at the attached files to see how

these pages are laid out.

The secret to the booklet is very simple –

without referring to its pages you are able to

determine the number and the color assigned to

every day of the year!

Unassembled book printed on 4 x 6 blank index cards

The most effective way of using the booklet is to first secretly obtain the participant’s birth date -

unless you use the pocket writing option mentioned below. A center tear, billet switch, or impression

device can also be used for this purpose. (If you perform an effect with a borrowed bill earlier in your

routine, you can often get a glimpse at the driver’s license when the spectator removes the bill from his

or her wallet.)

I ask the participant if she believes in lucky numbers. I show the Dr. Crow book and state that it

is a numerology book I picked up in the supermarket. Handing the booklet to her, I ask her to look

through it.

color.”

“Look up your birthday and it will tell you your lucky number combination and your special

You already know what her number and color will be, and may reveal that information as you

wish. (Those who are skilled in pocket writing will have no problem presenting this as a prediction

effect – just ask for the birth date and while the spectator looks it up you pocket-write the lucky

number and later pretend to remove the slip with your “prediction” from an envelope that has been in

plain view from the start.

The color is the easiest to determine quickly. Simply by body indexing nine envelopes, you can

hand one containing the proper color as soon as you know the date.

Use the mnemonic you probably learned in school to help you remember the seven colors of

the visible spectrum – ROY G. BIV. The letters of this guy Roy’s name stand for the colors Red, Orange,

Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. Since the name is a three-letter word, a single initial, and then

another three letter word. It is easy to determine the numerical value, from one to seven, of any of the

colors and vice versa. There are, however, nine different colors used in the book, so we use “Black”

and “White” to represent numbers eight and nine.

To determine the color for any given day of the year, add the values of the month and day

together and then add the digits in the result. If the result is a two-digit number, add those two digits

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