Teutonicus, a man distinguished by the range of
his inquiries and his efforts for the spread of
knowledge.

These secrets will be fully explained in the
section of this history devoted to the Arcana
of the Fire-Eaters (Chapter Six).

I take the following from the New York
Clipper-Annual of 1885:


The famous fire dance of the Navajo
Indians, often described as though it
involved some sort of genuine necromancy,
is explained by a matter-of-fact spectator.
It is true, he says, that the naked
worshipers cavort round a big bonfire, with
blazing faggots in their hands, and dash
the flames over their own and their fellows'
bodies, all in a most picturesque and
maniacal fashion; but their skins are first
so thickly coated with a clay paint that
they cannot easily be burned.


An illustrated article entitled Rites of the
Firewalking Fanatics of Japan, by W. C.
Jameson Reid, in the Chicago Sunday Inter-
Ocean of September 27th, 1903, reveals so