Why, the crack at the top of the Indian rope trick.
At some point during the picnic, Mary offered to show her husband a rope trick she had learned from a friend.
Here comes the rope trick, so we'd better watch it.
Rumors about the rope trick started spreading both within the local community and in England, when the couple returned home.
In 1904, for the first time, a living person claimed to have seen the Rope Trick.
Then came a picture of Karnak beginning the rope trick, marking the space between two words.
The new Indian rope trick: or What became of the debt?
The brutal versions of the rope trick seem to have come from retelling.
But once the possibility of actually seeing the Rope Trick had been established in the press, more people started to "see" it.
He also exposed how the indian rope trick could be performed by camera trickery.