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fire walkingReligious ceremony that involves walking across hot coals, red-hot stones, or burning wood. It has been practiced in many parts of the world, including ancient Greece, India, Japan, China, Tahiti, New Zealand, Bulgaria, and Spain. The most common form of fire walking involves striding across a layer of embers spread thinly over the bottom of a shallow trench. More rarely, devotees may walk through a blazing log fire. The reasons for fire walking include purification and as an ordeal to prove innocence. Devotees believe that only those who lack faith will be burned, and many fire walkers do escape without injury. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Classroom-tested as a read-aloud by this reviewer's (spellbound) sixth-grade English students, this is a truly "awesome" collection of science essays and mystery stories about 16 intriguing phenomena: Atlantis, the Bermuda Triangle, Black Holes, dinosaur extinction, the Easter Island statues, firewalking, ghosts, lightning, the Loch Ness monster, sea serpents, Stonehenge, life on Mars, time travel, origin of the universe, UFOs, and "warp speed. Personal-development programs do not all have to be firewalking, nude dancing or extreme in nature. Sometimes the Atheist Center hosts firewalking events, inviting villagers to walk over the hot coals and to refute the guru Sai Baba, who used to claim it was only possible through a holy miracle. |
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