Four Beauties (XiShi) Playing Cards Lavelle Some of those items are

Some of those items are inconvenient to bring along and use for close-up magic or table hopping

including some wonderful close-ups from the magician's view

And it's one of the essential gimmicks I recommend to all Mentalists

But suddenly you are also holding a green and a yellow cloth in your hand

Four Beauties (XiShi) Playing Cards Lavelle Some of those items areA story of a beauty who makes fish sink: During the Spring and Autumn period, there was a beauty called Xishi in the Yue Kingdom in Eastern China. She washed clothes in the creek every day. The fish in the creek saw Xishi's beauty and felt that they were too ugly to be seen by her. They didn't have the nerve to show their faces. One by one, they stayed away from the surface. Because of this, Xishi became "The Legendary Beauty that made the Fish sink".