>dismemberment? now thats a truly screwed up trick... elaborate

The original trick, had the majician playing his pipe and the rope which was very limp before, ruising up out of a wicker basket. Then a boy climbing up the rope, the majician climbing up after him with a big knife. The majician would then dismember the boy, with the bits falling back down into the basket. The majicin would climb down the rope, the rope would fall away and the boy would stand up out of the basket!