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Rh your body, beyond the left hanging string (Fig. 76x), then away from you, then to the right around the left string (Fig. 762), and finally toward you back through the hanging loop (Fig. 763).

Draw the right hand down and to the right, and it will come free from the noose around the wrist.

This trick is rather hard to learn and it can be done only in the one way I have described. Of course you will observe that you take your right hand out of the loop when you finally bring it toward you apparently through the loop.

HANGING I call this trick with the string "Hanging" merely because it is done around the neck. I saw it done by the Filipinos of the Linao Moro and Negrito tribes. Dr. Furness was shown it in the Caroline Islands by the girl "Dakofel."

First: Put your head through the loop of string, and let the rest of the loop hang down in front of you.

Second: Pass the right string around the neck from the left side, draw the loop tight, and let it hang down in front of you.

Third: Put the hanging loop on the hands and form Opening A, taking up the left palmar string first (Fig. 764).