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Ritual by Dan Harlan


At any time you want, hand your necklace to a spectator and magically remove the beads. Everything can be immediately examined! FREE SHIPPING.
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Dan Harlan returns with an impactful effect you can perform anytime, anywhere. Your spectator imbues all of their negative energy and emotion into three ordinary wooden beads, which then pass through the cord of a necklace as though they were made of smoke. This isn’t your grandmother’s necklace; this is Ritual by Dan Harlan.

Here’s what happens:

You introduce a simple necklace that you have been wearing. It’s a simple cloth cord and three wooden beads. You let your participant hold the necklace and examine it. They can see the beads move on the cord, and the cords are strong and solid. When the spectator imbues their energy into the beads and gives a long slow exhale, you then slide the beads right through the cord. Everything is immediately examinable.

Ritual comes with everything you need to perform this impactful effect, ready to go right out of the box. The cords and beads have been specially selected by Dan Harlan to make this solid-through-solid effect operate smoothly and beautifully. Dan’s innovative handling of this effect fixes all the old problems of swapping ends and hiding the beads so that this classic effect is more visually fooling than ever. Involve your audience in a ceremony that they will never forget when you perform Ritual by Dan Harlan.

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Conceptually Strong, Functionally Weak Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on July 25th, 2023
Like all magic tricks, there are strengths and weaknesses.
Strengths
1. Great idea to do wearable magic. Perfect for close-up work.
2. The methodology is very clever. This isn’t your Grandmother’s Necklace

Weaknesses

1. The script might work for the older Gen Z and younger Millennial crowd, but I quickly learned that the hokey psychobabble patter didn’t work. Be prepared to generate your own new scripts.
2. The props are uninspiring, especially the wooden beads, which are like the ones found in preschools. I ditched them and now use two different sets. One set uses large, attractive beads from a Hawaiian necklace so popular on the Islands. I use a Hawaiian-based patter and play Hawaiian music in the background. For the other set, I commissioned a jeweler to make three larger attractive gemstones to use on the necklace. They look like something they might wear at a fashionable party. Both sets have proved to be a great opening because people are curious and want to know the story about them. They often invite me to perform rather than me approaching them and asking if they’d like to see some magic.

Conclusion

Get the effect but be prepared to rework it, both patter and props significantly.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on July 9th, 2023
I love magic that involves a plot that captures the attention of the spectators. There is no angle issues, so long as you end properly. To me, this is perfect for walk around and it's totally unexpecting.

FYI, if need be, you can also buy the items you need to make a few of your own inexpensively at your local Hobby Lobby and/or Walmart.
7 of 8 magicians found this helpful.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on July 29th, 2023
This is a great reworking of Grandma's Necklace - and I can use this to demonstrate forgiveness - either God's forgiveness or forgiving yourself. Nothing hokey about that - but an excellent magical teaching and emotional moment. Thanks Dan!
3 of 3 magicians found this helpful.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on August 16th, 2023
The idea is good but the materials are really not nice. The clamps that fix the cords are much too big and absolutely useless. The colors aren't the best either, and the pearls aren't particularly attractive either. I copied everything with black cords that I had to look for a long time. Soft and stretchy so the pearls are also fixed when I pull them up. I still have to rework one Pearl . The pearls are in red, yellow and black and then I also explain what each color stands for in terms of negative qualities. I also have much smaller clasps, because in the original everything is much too big and dominant. I give 5 stars for the idea with the special story , but the material is just too bad. Therefore only 3 Stars.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on July 25th, 2023
"Ritual" is incredible !!! This illusion goes leaps and bounds beyond my expectations. One of my goals in life is to give people hope. This trick will be a metaphor for something much bigger. It will show that "Letting Go" is possible no matter how impossible it seems. I wish I could give it fifty stars. Thank You Dan Harlan you're amazing !!!
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on July 30th, 2023
I confess, I like Dan Harlan and his magic tricks and gimmicks. So far I always had a lot of fun learning and performing his stuff. And it's the same for this one.
I watched the video and was able to perform the trick within a few minutes.
I can't wait to try it out in public.
So Dan, keep on creating amazing magic stuff.
1 of 1 magicians found this helpful.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on July 25th, 2023
Ritual is a really fun trick to perform with people. It allows them inclusion in the trick and the patter is what really makes the trick. Dan has a great routine that really fits perfectly with the vibe. The trick is simple and clever but without Dan's patter, it's fairly pedestrian. He made it a complete and really nice experience with another person.
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Not your grandmother’s necklace Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on July 15th, 2023
Wow. Dan has hit it out of the park again with Ritual. It takes my grandmother’s necklace to a whole new level where I will be using it as a daily carry. This is just sweet!
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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on February 8th, 2024
This is a nice old trick. I now do mostly magic for my grandkids. I have nine, so they see a lot of magic. This is nice because I have a lot of granddaughters, and these can be made up, so when I finish, I can give them a neckless made of the same materials, but that will not come apart. If they ask me to do it again with the neckless I just gave them, I can either do a switch and do it again or offer to show them something better. I like doing a latchkey-type effect. With kids it is easy enough to direct their attention where we want it.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on November 30th, 2023
I didn’t think I would like this but oh how wrong I was.

This is a great variation of the grandmother’s necklace and gets great reactions. I love ending clean. The props are so simple and legitimate that nobody question's anything. I love this.
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