Merlins of Wakefield - It's always magic at Merlins

A Victorian beast of a structure built in 1851, Colney Hatch was the largest asylum in Europe and boasted the longest single corridor, which was more than a quarter of a mile, while the building itself had over six miles of corridors to house over 3000 patients in 32 different wards.

Some of the more famous residents included Aaron Kosminski, one of the men suspected of being Jack the Ripper, and two wives of Aleister Crowley (Rose Kelly and Maria Teresa de Miramar), the famous British occultist, writer, philosopher, mystic, and influencial member of the Golden Dawn, the Argenteum, and Ordo Templi Orientis.

Luna is over 150 pages and 100% examinable.

There are no "banks", no sevengali principle or short pages used.
You do not need to know a page number, you do not peek the book. The spectator never says or writes down the room they've chosen to visit. There are literally hundreds of rooms and hundreds of different patients in the registry.

The only thing used is the book.

Not only will you give a detailed description of the resident, who they are, why they were put there, how long they've been there, how old they are...you will reveal a certain item from the opposite page out of over 60 different items, an item that only applies to their chosen resident and not the other residents listed on the page. (BTW, this information is all in the entry they are looking at).

Your spectator will be asked to just "think" about the residents disposition (listed in the entry), their fears, sadness, rage and other emotions.

You then tell the spectator exactly what emotions they are experiencing. You become "empathic" as you describe the emotions they are only thinking about, emotions that are listed right there in the residents entry

You are able to "connect" two residents and reveal why one fears the other.

So much information is revealed, yet the method is diabolically simple. I think the Witches' Almanac is easy, well "Hatch" is even easier.

The presentation can be as dark or light as you wish to make it, it's up to the performer to decide. Every page in the book is hand aged. The cover is an aged and distressed velo stock, aged with the same expertise as the Witch book.

The book is exactly what the Colney Hatch resident log looked like. The cover is the same institutional design.

Included are administration pages, Doctor listings and additional service departments. Luna is perfect for those that want to add a dramatic and emotional presentation to their set.

It is perfect for those that perform both mentalism and bizarre magick.

This book will appeal to not only the professional performer, but the hobbiest as well, not to mention the collectors!