Witchfinder by Paul Prater

Words are not the only way to tell a story or the only way to speak. Often images can be much stronger and can convey much information.

What are these cards? A way of teaching, images of allegories, depictions of evil perhaps. Definitely dangerous. Perhaps no one knows. However, there is no doubt that they can confer power on the owner. That is why they have been hidden away.

Imagine being able to have an audience member take a stack of cards bearing different images and having three other audience members make free selections of which one they want. This is totally out of your hands and out of your control.

You can describe in fairly specific detail what each person is looking at. If you choose can take any one of those three people and describe exactly what they are looking at.

Another possibility is having someone in the audience just think of a card, without removing it from the stack and as they focus on it, you can describe what they are looking at. You can do this remotely or over the telephone. You are not even required to be physically present when this is presented.

You can also present a routine where an audience member acts as a witchfinder and decides who in the audience has committed which act or witchcraft. In other words, your audience member does the work, showing that the cards really do have power for any who wield them.

This beautifully packaged and powerful effect comes with eleven hand assembled, aged and appropriately stained cards and a stained muslin bag to hold them. You will also receive a 32 page PDF that contains the instructions, and a multitude of presentation ideas and angles for performance.