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The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. In 1917, Lieutenant Frederick William Holmes stated that whilst on his veranda with a group of officers in Kirkee, he had observed the trick being performed by an old man and young boy.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the fame of the trick increased performers would have had increasing difficulty in puzzling audiences with it, until finally the disappearance of the climber ceased to be a feature and the rare witness who had seen it spoke of a time long before. Lamont's popular but controversial work dismissed the accounts such as Shankara's and Melton's as irrelevant to his theme. The place could be any open area chosen by the neutral party and agreed to by the conjurers, and the spectators could be anywhere in front of the carpet on which Karachi would be seated.As soon as the boy was at the top of the pole the jugglers made a great shouting, declaring he had vanished.

In 1950, John Booth offered a reward of 25,000 rupees to any conjuror in India who could successfully demonstrate the trick. But, as Jasper Maskelyne says, that's not quite the same trick as the one that's been created in myth and legend.The journalist James Saxon Childers reported in 1932 that he visited India with a desire to see the trick but noted that "the first conjuror I asked about the rope trick smiled at me, the second laughed, and the third swore that the trick could not be done, had never been done, and that only the amazing credulity of the Occident nurtures the rumor. Stiff Rope is about 30 inches long and made with quite thick red rope that makes it visible from the distance.

The retraction received little attention, and in the following years many claimed to remember having seen the trick as far back as the 1870s. That is to say that a rope thrown up into the air has not remained suspended in mid-air, nor has any boy ever climbed up it. McKeague's explanation not only solves the mystery of the mid-air disappearance but also provides an alternative explanation for the Wiseman-Lamont observation discussed above that eyewitness reports were more impressive when much time had elapsed. According to Lamont, none of these stories proved credible, but with every repetition the story became more widely believed despite being only a myth. Three Crazy Ropes - Professor's Nightmare - Three different sized ropes become all the same size in your hand!He explained Melton's account of seeing the limbs "creep together again" (see above under "accounts") as being the result of contortionists' techniques. Meltons, Eduward, Zeldzaame en Gedenkwaardige Zee- en Land- Reizen, Jan ten Hoorn, Amsterdam, 1681, p. In his book on the topic, Peter Lamont claimed the story of the trick resulted from a hoax created by John Elbert Wilkie while working at the Chicago Tribune. 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. The real challenge was to perform the full trick including the disappearance of the boy in broad daylight, outside in the open air.

Then a noisy distraction from other members of the troupe is the misdirection needed which allows the climber to drop unseen to the ground and hide.

Pu Songling records a version in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1740) which he claims to have witnessed personally. He argued that Ibn Battuta did report a magic trick with a thong, and Jahangir with a chain, not a rope, and the tricks they described are different from the "classic" Indian rope trick. This is because misdirection of attention is extremely unlikely to be effective when the audience is expecting the disappearance, a fact which also explains why no one could claim any reward for a performance where it was specified the disappearance must be included. Other illusionists have successfully staged the trick out of doors, but under those circumstances, a demonstration of pole balancing has been all they could offer to the spectators. Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton in 1921 described an alleged demonstration of the trick, told to him by Colonel Bernard.