CHAPTER_Miracle Mongers and Their Methods A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc.

I. Fire worship.--Fire eating and heat resistance.--The Middle

Ages.--Among the Navajo Indians.--Fire-walkers of Japan.--The Fiery

Ordeal of Fiji

II. Watton's Ship-swabber from the Indies.-Richardson, 1667.--De

Heiterkeit, 1713.--Robert Powell, 1718-1780.--Dufour,

1783.--Quackensalber, 1794

III. The nineteenth century.--A "Wonderful Phenomenon."--"The

Incombustible Spaniard, Senor Lionetto," 1803.--Josephine Girardelli,

1814.--John Brooks, 1817.--W. C. Houghton, 1832.--J. A. B. Chylinski,

1841.--Chamouni, the Russian Salamander, 1869.--Professor Rel Maeub,

1876. Rivelli (died 1900)

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