Word: fakirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find out, by cold scientific investigations, more about the occult arts. There was no doubt that a fertile field lay before them. Author Maurice Colinon had investigated faith healers in France for eight years-first as a newspaperman, then posing successively as a healer, front man for an Oriental fakir, and a mortally sick man. His most startling report: "unorthodox" healers are now 48,000 strong and outnumber the country's 42,000 licensed physicians. They are also increasing rapidly east of the Rhine, a German delegate reported...
...Incense, she was an Indian woman carrying a tray of smoking incense; Miss Ruth's figure was no longer as willowy as it was in Theodore Roosevelt's Administration, but her bare arms undulated with astonishing grace and control. In The Cobras, she was a fakir. As the cobras, represented by Miss Ruth's arms, slithered over her head and body, she wore an impudent expression that told her audience that neither she nor the fakir took the cobras very seriously. In The Yogi, she strode on to the stage in flowing saffron robes with a long...
...Egypt's "liberator," Mohammed Ali, conquered the Sudan in 1820 and began 60 years of maladministration and slaving. (To this day, the Egyptian gutter name for Sudanese is "Abid," which means the slaves.) In 1882, rotting Egypt burst apart; the British moved into Egypt proper, and a religious fakir, calling himself El Mahdi (The Messiah), took the Sudan. Famed General "Chinese" Gordon, an Englishman employed by the Egyptians, tried a holding operation in Khartoum, but died on the steps of his headquarters, a human pincushion for dervish spears...
Tarah Bey M.D., Fakir and Mystic, had just finished his first act at Symphony Hall. It began with a display of long pins and longer knives which members of the audience examined for proper honing. After putting himself into what he identified as a cataleptic trance, Bey declared himself insensible to pain and asked those on stage to prove it by sticking the pins into...
...cork on him. Vienna's police department feels that climbing into a bottle is likely to create grave "danger to personal and public health." Rudolph Schmidt, a carnival stunt man from Bad Hall, holds quite an opposite view. A self-made genie who calls himself the Hindu Fakir Rayo, Rudolph insists that a year spent inside a bottle can provide science with some valuable lessons in controlled diet. It will also, he hopes, attract a sizable crowd of sightseers at 15? a look...