Theos-Talk Archives (November 2002 Message tt00539)

leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
> You just don't get it, do you? I said "turn a staff into a snake" (a 
> trick I learned from Moses ;-) not the other way around. Don't you 
> think all the Egyptian magicians whom the original Moses fooled, 
> didn't know that easy trick of turning a snake into a stick? That's 
> about as easy as the Indian rope trick.

The Egyptian "staff to snake" effect is well-documented. There is, at
this point, no proof that ANYBODY can do the infamous "Indian Rope
Trick"; the latter is quite probably just a legend.

Bart Lidofsky