The Indian Rope Trick. This trick was supposed to have been performed in the streets in India between 1850 and 1900. A fakir would throw a rope in the air where it would remain erect. A small boy, the fakir's assistant, would climb the rope and disappear at the top. Then the fakir would ascend the rope with a knife. He would reach the top and stab the air, then throw down bloody limbs. He would descend the rope then, and gather up all the bloody limbs and put them in a basket. The boy would then pop out of the basket, very much alive.

Any explanination on how they do this ::) ???

mass hypnosis?

:-/

Magic ?  :-/

Sky hooks !! :-[

Sorry

I'll get my coat

Although I don't have a clue either, there is more insight from the site that this story came from.

http://www.blather.net/archives/uncon97/97rope.html

The Indian rope trick, was proven never to have happened, it was all a story... i'll see if i can dig out the report for you guys

Some further evidense supporting the hoax theory

http://skepdic.com/indianrope.html

here you go:
http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal04170102.html

all the things that i have on this say that it is a mass illusion, done using mass hypnosis, of course that is the ones that say that it is a trick, i even hace one or two things in books, that say it is real.