Of Victorina, the Boston Herald of December 28th, 1902, said: By long practice she has accustomed herself to swallow swords, daggers, bayonets, walking sticks, rods, and other dangerous articles.
Her throat and food passages have become so expansive that she can swallow three long swords almost up to the hilts, and can accommodate a dozen shorter blades.
This woman is enabled to bend a blade after swallowing it.

By moving her head back and forth she may even twist instruments in her throat.
To bend the body after one has swallowed a sword is a dangerous feat, even for a professional swallower.

There is a possibility of severing some of the ligaments of the throat or else large arteries or veins.
Victorina has already had several narrow escapes.
On one occasion, while sword-swallowing before a Boston audience, a sword pierced a vein in her throat.

The blade was half-way down, but instead of immediately drawing it forth, she thrust it farther.

She was laid up in a hospital for three months after this performance.
In Chicago she had a still narrower escape.