Word: fakirs
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...Desmond Leslie had read of the woman who wrote Sir Stafford telling him where he could buy bed sheets (TIME, Dec. 9). So he offered Sir Stafford "something I feel would be much more in your line"-an Indian bed of nails (a present to Leslie from a fakir...
Alioune Mamadou Kane came to Paris from his native Senegal in the early '30s. A spear-tall (6 ft. 8 in.), mission-trained blackamoor, he made a living by driving a taxi and hawking West African gewgaws. Then, at the 1937 Paris International Exposition, he performed as a fakir. It became a habit...
When Mexico's thin, redheaded El Fakir was unnailed from the simulated cross on which he had spent 488 hours, 45 minutes (TIME, Sept. 27) and taken to the Sanatorio Mexicano, Catholic nuns refused to minister to him. He rested four days; then, against doctor's orders, rose and walked to his hotel. That evening he strolled abroad with his three dogs. Half an hour later he was dead...
...more devout said that God had struck El Fakir down for imitating Christ. Doctors, viewing the body, found an embolism (obstruction in the blood stream), said that El Fakir had paid the price of getting out of bed too soon...
Finally, at 1:30 a.m. Independence Day Sept. 16, El Fakir's doctor ordered,him unnailed lest he be permanently injured. From his bed in the Sanatorio Mexicano El Fakir declared: "I am strong enough to be nailed up again next week...