Indian rope trick

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• Indian rope-trick — noun The supposed Indian trick of climbing an unsupported rope • • • Main Entry: ↑Indian …   Useful english dictionary

• Indian rope trick — The Indian rope trick is stage magic said to have been performed in and around India about the 1800s. Sometimes described as the world’s greatest illusion , it involved a magician, a length of rope, and one or more boy assistants.The trickThere… …   Wikipedia

• Indian rope trick — noun the supposed feat of climbing an upright, unsupported length of rope …   English new terms dictionary

• Indian rope trick — noun an illusion whereby a rope is made to stand upright as if suspended from an invisible attachment, allowing the magician to climb up it …  

• Rope trick — The term rope trick can refer to more than one thing. * Any magic trick involving a rope ** Indian rope trick, a trick involving causing a rope to appear to levitate in the air and then climbing up it; commonly associated with Indian fakirs *… …   Wikipedia

• Indian magicians — India, designated as Land of Magic . Stage or street magic has a long history in India. Magic is mentioned in the Hindu holy books, the Vedas and Upanishad. From God Indran s Jaalam(magic) the word Indrajaal derived. Some of the most popular… …   Wikipedia

• Indian — n. & adj. n. 1 a a native or national of India. b a person of Indian descent. 2 (in full American Indian) a member of the aboriginal peoples of America or their descendants. 3 any of the languages of the aboriginal peoples of America. adj. 1 of… …   Useful english dictionary

• Penn & Teller's Magic and Mystery Tour — is a 2003 television documentary miniseries starring Penn Teller. The program was created by the CBC in association with Channel 4 Film. The show focuses on street magic, and the subjects of each of the three shows are China (Chinese Linking… …   Wikipedia

• John Elbert Wilkie — (1860 – 13 December 1934) was an American journalist and head of the United States Secret Service from 1898 to 1911.Indian rope trickUnder the name Fred S. Ellmore ( Fred Sell More ) Wilkie wrote of the Indian Rope Trick while working at Chicago… …   Wikipedia

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• List of magic tricks — This page contains a list of magic tricks. In magic literature, tricks are often called effects. Based strictly upon published literature and marketed effects, there are hundreds of millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single… …   Wikipedia