These books from the 1800s explain how to create magic tricks that can be used just in time for Halloween:

Illustration of a special ‘houlette’ that is fixed to a wand for the trick ‘The Rising Cards’ – fig. 23 on page 92 of ‘More Magic’ by Professor Hoffmann
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