rope trick

noun

rope trick

noun

1

The Indian rope trick.

Some army officers of our acquaintance were very anxious to see some performances of the "rope trick" order, but were intensely sceptical of any real result.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 197:

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