English: The magician Karachi (real name Arthur Claude Darby) performing the Indian rope trick with his son in 1935. The photograph is believed to be a hoax by magicians. The 'rope' the boy is balancing on is believed to be a rigid iron shaft.
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Harry Price. (1936). Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter. Putnam. The photograph also appears in the article Rope Trick Pictured in Clever Camera Hoax. Popular Science Monthly. (March, 1935), p. 37 in which the photograph is dismissed as a hoax.
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