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Peter Lamont. The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick: How a Spectacular Hoax Became History

Publisher:
Year:2005
Pages:265
ISBN:1560256613

"A rope rises up into the air. A boy climbs up the rope and when the boy gets to the top he vanishes into thin air," explains Peter Lamont, winner of the Jeremy Dalziel prize in British History, and author of The Rise of the Indian Rope Trick, about a tall tale that found its way into legend. The rope trick is one of the most successful hoaxes of all time, created by an amateur magician and printed in the Chicago Tribune in 1890. Despite a later admission that the story was false, it continued to spread in newspapers and journals throughout the world. Some claimed to have seen the trick performed on trips to India. Others added their own spin to the tale. Using the original legend as a starting point, Lamont, who has performed as a magician and psychic, explores how easily people ...

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Anthony Dillett. Anansi: That Tricky Spider (Volume 1)

Publisher:
Year:2012
Pages:54
ISBN:1480076775

Anansi the Spiderman or rather spider and man originated with the Ashanti people of present day Ghana. Anansia??s father, the Sky God Nyame, got so tired of his sona??s pranks that he turned him into a spider. The stories of Anansi were brought to the Caribbean by slaves, some of whom kept up the oral tradition of their people by recounting some event in the life of their village. The stories also included some folklore such as the life and times of Anansi, the trickster. Accordingly Anansi is described as a creature who was always trying to best anyone with whom he came in contact. The general idea for him was that although small he could outsmart creatures much bigger than himself. This is actually a lesson for us that we should depend on brain power rather than the physical. Anansi ...

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Gerald McDermott. Jabuti the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon

Publisher:
Year:2005
Pages:32
ISBN:0152053743

JabutA­'s shell was smooth and shiny, and the songs he played on his flute were sweet. But his music was a reminder, too, of the mischievous pranks JabutA­ sometimes played. When a concert takes place in heaven, Vulture offers to fly JabutA­ there . . . all the while plotting a trick of his own.

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Janice Galloway. The Trick is to Keep Breathing

Publisher:Vintage
Year:1999
Pages:240
ISBN:978-0-749-39173-7

"An account from the inside of a mind cracking up...its writing is as taut as a bowstring. From brilliant title to closing injunction, it hums with intelligence, clarity, wit; and, as its heroine's struggle for order and meaning seduces our minds, exposes how close we all of us are to insanity. Joy, as Galloway's heroine reluctantly lets us know that she's called, is simply that dangerous step or two nearer the edge". Listener