From time to time the dancers sponge their own backs with the flaming brands.

When a brand is so far consumed that it can no longer be held it is dropped and the dancers disappear from the corral.
The spectators pick up the flaming bunches thus dropped and bathe their own hands in the fire.
"No satisfactory explanation seems to be obtainable as to the means by which the dancers in this extraordinary performance are able to escape injury.

Apparently they do not suffer from any burns.

Doubtless some protection is afforded by the earth that is applied to their bodies." Spontaneous combustion of the human body, although doubted by the medical men of this day, has for many years been the subject of much discussion; only a few years ago, among the writers on this subject, there were as many credulous as there were skeptics.

There is, however, no reliable evidence to support the belief in the spontaneous combustion of the body.