The "Indian rope" A. Gorky and M. Maeterlinck watched with their own eyes, and they had not the slightest doubt about the mystery and mysticism of the action seen. Unlike Maurice Maeterlinck, Gorky had never been to India. He saw a trick with a rope in the Caucasus, performed by a certain mysterious Indian and was very impressed by him.

Fans of guessing illusions suggested that the fakir rope inside
hollow. And there are incoming "bend" of bamboo, metal rings and balls, etc. To this, the witnesses immediately stated that the Indian rope looked to be the most ordinary string up to the focus. And that it was simply impossible to hide all sorts of tricky technical devices.

In the end, Queen Victoria of England promised £ 1000 to anyone who repeated this trick in the UK.
Following the queen, the Englishman illusionist John McColin raised the award to 5000. And the vice-king of India, Lord Lensdown, brought the award to 10,000 pounds. But those who wanted to get rich fabulously did not increase, but money was not in demand.

Now these experienced researchers have noticed the art of the fakir in distracting the attention of the public. And the very place of the demonstration of the "Indian rope" - near the walls and roofs of houses and tall trees, where the requisite requisite was disguised in advance.
Marked and continued execution of the focus in time, in order to tighten its apogee into the masking darkness of twilight. And the presence of indispensable clubs of smoke from the fire to mask the actions of the fakir and his assistants.
For the saturation of this smoke, the assistants even poured some white powder into the fire. These observations of the English professor found official confirmation from the Indian association of illusionists.

Samuel's explanation satisfied many, but there were also eyewitnesses that they saw this trick in the "clean field", without any high objects nearby. Here it is necessary to emphasize that the exposure of Professor Samuel is fully justified for the conditions in which he observed this trick.
Then the "Indian rope" was shown repeatedly in music halls with the use of the so-called "black cabinet" technology. But the public was impressed by the first recorded performance of this complex stunt in the open air.
This is how this number was shown in 1924 by the Englishman Arthur Derby. And on the sawdust of the arena of the Moscow circus introduced his "Indian rope" Soviet illusionist Kio. And yet, it was already a "Western technique" of focus, different from the techniques of Indian fakirs. The same Kio honestly admitted using a rare material when creating a rope for focus.

Western magicians and did not hide that they show only the illusion of the "Indian rope". However, in the old days of demonstrations of this focus, fakirs of such technologies and materials simply did not exist. And the trick itself was performed on the streets - before the eyes of experienced skeptics from Europe. And it was performed so often that it is remembered in our days.

Life experience has taught me that a miracle has a place in life. And in India there is still quite a lot of what we call "magic". Still, it is not for nothing that many thinkers and researchers considered this country as a repository of many mysteries and secrets. After all, people have settled the space now known as "India" for a very, very long time. And there have always been many scholars and sages here. What kind of weapons, exotic and sometimes very effective for their time here are not invented! And therefore I fully admit that the ancient fakirs used some forces and properties of objects unknown to us now. And perhaps, the "Indian rope" in their performance could not be an illusion at all. And yet the fact remains: the current "Indian rope" is performed without any mysticism, with the use of advanced and little-known technologies and materials.

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