Chapter 1: What is the premise of 'Blackstone Detective - The Devil's Cauldron'?
The Magic Detective, starring the world's greatest living magician, Blackstone. He tells you the inside story of The Devil's Cauldron. And right after the story, Blackstone will explain tricks that you yourself can perform. Reveal the guarded secrets of the world's greatest living magician. And now, stand by for Blackstone, the magic detective.
Chapter 2: What scientific experiment does Blackstone propose?
I've got a little game I want you to play today, Alan. What is it? Bring out the cauldron, Rhoda.
Well, I'm just heating it. I'll be there in a second.
You know, Alan, I call this a game, but it isn't really. It's a scientific experiment. What do you mean? Rhoda's bringing in a cauldron of molten metal, and I want to see just how long you can keep your hand in it. I have a stopwatch here. Hey, hey, hey. Is this a joke?
Here's the kettle, Blackstone. I think it's hot enough. The metal's all melted anyway.
You asked if this were a joke, Alan. Does it look like one?
No.
No, it doesn't. Look, Blackstone, nobody can put their hands in that stuff and then not get burned.
Scared, Alan?
Darn right I am. I wouldn't put my hand in that for anything on earth. Think I am crazy? Well, then I guess Rhoda will have to do it.
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Chapter 3: Who is Mendez and what trouble does he face?
All right, Loretta.
Good luck. Stop. Stop, I tell you. The blonde woman is not a kahuna. I am. Who are you? I am Pele, the volcano goddess. And I say this woman is no kahuna of mine. She lies.
Grab her. Now, if you are the goddess of the volcano, you will not be afraid to put your hand in the boiling water. Push her hand into it.
See, it does not harm me. The water does not spoil the arm of the volcano goddess. But bring on my cauldron.
Here it is, goddess.
You see, I have here a cauldron of molten metal. Hotter by far than boiling water. Watch. I run my hand through it.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the kahuna in the story?
I let it run down my arm. This is true magic. Now, if the kahuna thinks she is so great, let her try to put her hands in molten metal. Let us see her try it. Oh, she is afraid. See, she is no kahuna. Sour, do not let her escape. Get her, black coat. I got her.
I got her.
Who was the blonde kahuna? What was she doing all that mumbo-jumbo for? Remember I said I recognized her? Yes. I'd seen her years before in Berlin. She was a dancer who married someone high in the Nazi party. What on earth was she doing out in the Pacific, then? Well, this was before the war, you remember.
She was a German agent sent out there to frighten the natives off the island so that the Nazis could build a secret airfield. They couldn't do it while the natives were still there because word of their activities might have leaked out. And it was against all treaty. I'll be darned. Say, Blackstone, how about Rhoda sticking her hands into that melted metal in the boiling water?
Why wasn't she scalded? Well, that boiling water gambit is an old Hindu trick, Alan. Hot water is like hot air, you know. It rises to the top. The first few moments that liquid boils, all the heat is at the top. If you stir it with your hands, the cold water is mixed with the scalding liquid, and it is cool enough for a human hand to stand.
That only works for a few minutes, of course.
And what about the hot molten metal? Does that rise, too? No. You see, the metal would have to reach a very high temperature before it would melt at all.
Well, then, how on earth... Well, it's simple. Now, watch. I'll stick my arm into this cauldron of metal right now.
Oh, Rhoda, no, no, no.
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Chapter 5: What happens during the ritual on the island?
Now, look closely. It's child's plays.
Well, that explains everything.
Alan and I just aren't children. Oh, I'm not so sure about you. Well, your idea, Alan, of building on one match, which I lay there on the table flat like that, was correct.
But then what?
Then lay one match across, extending well to the right. Then one across, extending to the left. Go on from there, Rhoda.
You mean place one another extending to the right?
That's it, and another to the left.
Then one to the right.
And one to the left.
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