Word: pullavar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retired magician I salute a fellow member of the ancient art of magic who performs in India under the name of Subbayah Pullavar and who thoroughly mystified P. T. Plunkett, the tea planter, and Pat Dove, the camera man, as well as the editorial staff of the Illustrated London News...
...Dove, he took along a camera and films. Long before Mr. Plunkett saw the Yogi, he could hear the monotonous roll of tom-toms. Coolies working in the adjacent field heard it too, and more than a hundred of them crept into the 80-by-80 ft. inclosure. Subbayah Pullavar, a gaunt, wiry Yogi, told Mr. Plunkett he had been "levitating" for 20 years, that his family had been doing it for hundreds. Mr. Plunkett was impressed by Subbayah's "long hair hanging down over his shoulders, a drooping mustache and a wild look in his eye." Asked...
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