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Fire Magic

Fire Eating plus Many Fire Tricks!

By Clettis V. Musson

This book contains a lot of dangerous stunts & tricks with fire or using real fire, ALL of which are very dangerous and are not recommended for anyone to attempt, copy, model or use in any form! This book is sold for historic & informational purposes only and no instructions as to how to accomplish said feats, stunts, tricks, etc. 

Many wonderful fire tricks and the secrets of fire eating. Add brightness, flash, color and excitement to your show. The entire fire eating subject is covered: torches, gas jets, licking a red hot poker, drinking boiling liquid, biting hot iron, eating burning objects, fire bubbles, etc. Also the Human Blow Torch, other thrilling but different effects such as the Human Volcano, Fire Fountain, Burning a Living Head, Burning Water, the Dragon's Mouth, many others.Spectacular numbers include Colored Fire, Automatic Lamp, Mysterious Candles, Breath of Fire, etc. There are sixty tricks in all, carefully explained. Most are harmless. Where there is danger, precautions are explained. Fire eating dates back to 1000 BC, yet even today, few know its secrets.

Contents Include:

A Photo: John Platt fire eating
3 Introduction: on the dangers of playing with fire, and some background
6 Heat Resisting Formulas: a couple of early formulas
7 Novel Steak Cooking: performer cooks a steak inside a cage
8 Torches: how to make torches suitable for fire eating
10 A New Fire Torch: using a curtain rod and asbestos
10 A Handful of Fire: grabbing fire from a torch
10 Blazing Pipe: fire shoots from an empty pipe
10 Human Blow Torch: blow a stream of fire from the mouth
11 The Gas Jet: one end of tube dangling from mouth burns like a gas jet
12 Natural Gas Jet: as above, without a tube
12 The Main Course: eating burning coals - pine
12 Licking a Red Hot Poker: licking the poker until it is cold
13 Eating Burning Pitch: eating sizzling balls
13 The Asbestos Tongue: melted sealing wax on the tongue
14 Drinking Boiling Liquor: with a trick cup
14 A string of Fire: apparently swallowing a candle wick
15 Swallowing a Red Hot Sword: you must know how to swallow a sword first
15 Epicurean's Delight: flaming raisins are eaten
15 Biting Off a Piece of Red Hot Iron: dangerous
16 Eating Burning Coals: illusion
16 Candle Chicanery: eating part of a candle
17 Fire Bubbles: soap bubble blown from pipe explodes in a candle flame
17 Meteor Balls: performer seems to eat balls of fire at the table
17 The Flaming Dessert: eating a flaming banana
18 Real Fire Eating Stunt: eating flames from a bowl
18 Hands That Won't Burn: hands through flames don't burn
18 Hands of Immunity: hands washed in the molten lead are not harmed
19 Breath of Fire: paper, wood, or cloth blown upon bursts into flames
19 Fire Lozenges: performer appears to eat flaming sponge balls
19 Eating Burning Paper: performer appears to eat ignited tissue paper strips
20 The Dragon's Mouth: smoke and sparks from the mouth
20 A Tongue Lighter: lighting a candle from the tongue
21 The Hot Lead Test: finger in hot molten lead is unharmed
21 Red Hot Challenge: performer eats hot peppers
21 Colored Fire: how to produce colored flames for red, green, etc.
23 Automatic Lamp: lighting a lamp with a magic wand
23 Sparks and Smoke: another method for smoke and sparks from mouth
24 Liquid Smoke: smoke blown from mouth into a glass of water
24 Cloth That Won't Burn: two strips lit but are unharmed
24 Mysterious Candles: ice makes candles light and sputter
24 Weird Faces: spectator's faces take on weird complexions
25 Fire By Command: a ball of paper alights by command
25 Burning Letters: fire traces path of letters on a cardboard
25 Burning Water: water seems to burn
26 Flaming Water: water poured into a bowl burst into flame
26 Speedy Cigarettes: lit cigarette burns rapidly
26 Sputtering Matches: matches will sputter and smoke but not light
26 Water for Matches: lighting a cigarette with a liquid
26 Novel Cigarette Lighting: match lights cigarette at a distance in the mouth
27 A Fountain of Fire: a chemical mixture
27 Fire Ball Feat: a ball of fire is swallowed and reproduced from the ear
28 Color From a Candle Flame: looking through a plate glass
28 The Shooting Pipe: a lit pipe gives off a report like a gun
28 The Sparks From a Pipe: when a candle is held near the end
28 Burning a Living Head!!!: for the stage
31 Spontaneous Flame: paper on ashtray bursts into flame
31 Flaming Finger: performer lights finger and then lights another candle
32 Blazing Finger Tips: using candles
32 Eating Matches: first unlit and then one lit one
33 Burning Sugar
33 Breath of Beezlebub
34 Flashy Flames
34 The Hot Ball
35 Fireless Smoke
36 Boiling Water in a Paper Cup: water boils in a cup with a match
36 Hot Head: a fire is set in a cylinder over the assistant's head, but the assistant is unharmed
37 Burned Alive: a coffin on stage is set on fire but assistant inside is unharmed
39 The Human Volcano
41 Contrary To Nature: flame travels downward to light candle
41 SureFire Bet Trick: a stunt
41 Ice That Won't Melt: science trick
42 At The Touch Of A Stick: two stones burst into flames when touched by the stick
42 Miniature Volcano: small model
42 Medium's Fire Routine: skin and hair are impervious to fire
43 Skin And Match Test: match flame run over palm does not harm
44 Pinching Out Candle Flames: pinching out candle flames
44 To The Reader: author and publisher disavow any responsibility for injury!
 

WARNING—Fire Eating is very dangerous and there is a severe risk to its practitioners. This book is only sold to adults and all advice is to be used only at the discretion of the reader. Be safe.

Details: Fire Magic by Clettis V. Musson

44 pages, soft covers, saddle-stitched, size 5 1/2" by 8 1/2".