Magic Trick: The Secret of Rope Tying

The Secret of Rope Tying - Magic Tricks

 

Since the days of the Davenport Brothers many conjurers have exhibited rope tying. To shake off the most intricate of these ties is never very difficult, for it is only a matter of bringing a strain on the rope until one hand is free—which is soon done—and then the rest is plain sailing. But it is very different where one allows oneself to be tied tightly with rope, then frees oneself so as to perform seemingly impossible "stunts," and afterward is found tied up as at first. That is what Mr. Kellar used to do. How he did it he never told us, and yet