Abstract
SOME forty cases of the ember-walk and the stone-walk (to distinguish the two forms by these terms) selected from a larger number, collected from a wide range of accredited sources, were analysed for a paper I wrote for the Society for Psychical Research (published in the Proceedings in December 1934).
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” Indian Fakirs”, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Journal, Oct.–Dec. 1934.
” Psychology and Psychotherapy”, p. 108 el seq.
Cf. Dr. Hadfleld's experiments (Lancet, Nov. 3, 1917) with a hypnotised patient, whose arm was only lightly blistered without hypersemia when touched with a red-hot pencil-case.
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Dr. William Brown (loc. cit.) ” Under autohypnosis the respiration can be slowed, the pulse-rate altered, the tendency to bleed diminished”. Kuda Bux pulse rates and breathing rates have not been published, if they were taken.
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Thomas, E. Fire-Walking. Nature 137, 213–215 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137213a0
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