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The Miracle Mongers
an Expos

PREFACE
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The Master--Chabert, 1792-1859 V.

Fire-eating magicians.

Ching Ling Foo and Chung Ling Soo .-- Fire-eaters employed by magicians: The Man-Salamander, 1816.-Mr.
Carlton, Professor of Chemistry, 1818 .-- Miss Cassillis, aged nine, 1820.

The African Wonder, 1843 .-- Ling Look and Yamadeva die in China during Kellar's world tour, 1877 .-- Ling Look's double, 1879 .-- Electrical effects, The Salambos .-- Bueno Core .-- Del Kano .-- Barnello .-- Edwin Forrest as a heat-resister--The Elder Sothern as a fire-eater .-- The Twilight of the Art VI.

The Arcana of the fire-eaters: The formula of Albertus Magnus .-- Of Hocus Pocus .-- Richardson's method .-- Philopyraphagus Ashburniensis .-- To breathe forth sparks, smoke and flames .-- To spout natural gas .-- Professor Sementini's discoveries .-- To bite off red-hot iron .-- To cook in a burning cage .-- Chabert's oven .-- To eat coals of fire .-- To drink burning oil .-- To chew molten lead .-- To chew burning brimstone .-- To wreathe the face in flames .-- To ignite paper with the breath .-- To drink boiling liquor and eat flaming wax VII.


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