Magic-The Great Indian Rope Trick
Briefly, the effect of the Indian Rope Trick is this:
The conjurer sits cross-legged in an open space. He throws one end of a coil of rope in to the air and about fifteen feet of it (sometimes twenty or twenty-five) remains stiff, like a pole. A little boy climbs the rope and balances himself at the extremity.
At a word from the conjurer he vanishes, and is discovered in a basket or comes running in to the crowd from a distant spot. Then at a signal, the rope crumples to the ground.
At a word from the conjurer he vanishes, and is discovered in a basket or comes running in to the crowd from a distant spot. Then at a signal, the rope crumples to the ground.
Here's a video of an indian magician- Gopinath Muthukad, performing the rope trick:
The most compelling of all stories comes from the Pre-WWII era of a magician named Karachi, performing in England.
The full article can be accessed here:
Karachi: The story behind the photograph
Further cases of performances are documented on the web as follows:The legendary indian rope trick by ishamudin khan:
ishamudin in globalpost article:
I've seen the rope trick:
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