кто-нибудь знает, что там за индейская или индийская веревка?

Indian rope trick

The Indian rope trick is a famous piece of stage magic said to have been performed in and around India in about the 1800s. Sometimes described as "the world’s greatest illusion", it involved a magician, a length of rope, and one or more boy assistants.
The trick
There are different accounts of the Indian rope trick in circulation, but apart from minor changes in the settings and the participants, the basic trick remained the same as described below.

* In the simplest version of the trick, the magician would hurl a rope into the air. The rope did not fall but stood erect. His boy assistant would climb the rope and then descend.
* A more elaborate version of the trick would find the magician (or his assistant) disappearing after reaching top of the rope, then reappearing at ground level.
* The "classic" version of the trick, however, was even more detailed: the rope would seem to rise high into the skies, even disappearing from view. The boy assistant would climb the rope, and soon be lost to view. The magician would call back his boy assistant, and on hearing no response, would become furious. The magician then armed himself with a knife or sword, and he would also climb the rope and disappear in the thin air. An argument would be heard, and then human limbs would start falling on the ground, presumably cut from the assistant by the magician. When all the parts of the body, including the torso, landed on the ground, the magician would be seen climbing down from the erect rope. He would collect the limbs and put them in a basket, or simply collect all the limbs in one place and then cover them with a cape or blanket. Soon the magician’s boy assistant would appear, miraculously restored.

Не индейская веревка, а Indian + rope burn

Вот только как оно по-русски называется? Драки в песочнице остались в далеком прошлом ...

о, gel, спасибо, напомнили!!! крапивка, да.