Miracles with Fire

  • Science versus Miracle: Licking a red-hot poker

    B. Premanand The oracle licks a red-hot poker or iron rod until it is cold. While talking to the District Education Officers in Delhi, one of them from Gharwal district told me he had seen an oracle, possessed by the deity, licking a red-hot poker until it was cold. He wondered how a person could…

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  • Science versus Miracles: Tantriks and their Tricks

    B. Premanand When the tantrik spits on sawdust, it bursts into flame. Experiment: 131 Effect: When the tantrik spits on sawdust, it bursts into flame. Props: A metal-bowl, well dried sawdust, sodium peroxide (powdered), water. Method: Keep in metal bowl dry sawdust mixed with equal parts of powdered sodium peroxide. Ask some one to bring…

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