How is Indian Rope Trick made possible..Quality answers needed.
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In the simplest version, a long piece of rope is left in a basket and placed in an open field, usually by a fakir. The rope levitates, with no external support. A boy assistant, a jamoora, climbs the rope and then descends. ... The magician arms himself with a knife or sword, climbs the rope, and vanishes as well.
Explanation:
The secret behind the Great Indian Rope Trick is that there may never have been one. It is a rumour passed for generations without verification.
First reported to the world by John Wilkie as a hoax for a Chicago Newspaper in 1890, it wasn't seen by Wilkie, and soon everyone who wanted to be anyone claimed to have seen it but didn't. Nonetheless, many people have attempted to reproduce it with varying qualities of result.
It is now seen as one of the greatest classical effects in magic, even though nobody has ever seen its full version.
The full version:
A magician in an open space charms a rope to climb into the sky disappearing into the clouds. His apprentice (usually his son) climbs the rope and vanishes into the clouds. The magician calls him back, but is angered by the lack of response. He then climbs up after his son, chops him up with a sword letting bits fall to the ground. He climbs back down, puts all the bits into a basket, and poof, the boy is put back together again.
Although the trick didn't exist, it is still, I would say, a triumph of Magic. The misdirection is that people lying about what they saw led others to believe that they had seen things that they hadn't, perpetuating a completely Illusory reality in the minds of those people. Can you convince people that they have seen something that they clearly have not? If no, then you can not call yourself a magician.