Indian rope trick
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title:
Indian rope trick
text:
The Indian rope trick is a magic trick said to have been performed in and around India during the 19th century. Sometimes described as "the world’s greatest illusion", it reputedly involved a magician, a length of rope, and one or more boy assistants. In the 1990s the trick was said by some historians to be a hoax perpetrated in 1890 by John Wilkie of the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
Peter Lamont has argued that there are no accurate references to the trick predating 1890, and that later stage mag
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Apocryphal magic trick
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rope_trick
date created:
2005-07-16T19:23:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T12:56:13Z
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