What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.
From Harry Houdini
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.
Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.
The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.
A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.
But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
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