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Effect

The Mystic Knots

Harlan Tarbell · The Tarbell Course, 1926

Time
4 min read + 10 min practice
Materials
In the library
Prerequisites
None

This effect may be presented in any kind of Oriental program to good advantage.

Performer shows a piece of soft, white clothesline about eight feet long. He coils this up in his left hand and places rope on table. Suddenly he jerks up one end of rope and a number of single knots have been formed in rope. He places rope on table again. In a moment Magician again jerks up one end of rope, and the knots have disappeared.

How it is done

The method, 11 drawings and all it needs, inside the library.

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