Indian basket trick

The trick ends while the child or assistant either climbs out of the basket or reappears from behind the crowd unharmed.

The Indian basket trick has been used in an adapted form by Western magicians for a long time.

It started off being performed in the streets; later, Colonel Stodare adapted it to stage magic.

The secret to the trick was revealed by the magician Samri Baldwin as early as 1895.

The boy whilst inside the basket "coils himself around in the bulge or protruding sides of the basket, so that when the Fakeer tramples in the middle or center, he does not trample on the boy...