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TABLE III GADDIS (1967) DOCUMENTATION OF "MASTERY OVER FIRE"
PAGE
DATE
N
n
TYPE
REMARKS
L
t
CITE (GADDIS)
116
.
1
.
A
St Francis de Paula
.
.
Thurston 1952
117
16xx
1
.
B
Claris ASC
.
.
.
117
186x
1
.
C
Home, transfer ASC
(see quote below)(1)
.
.
SPR:VI:103
Adair 1924
Burton 1944
121
1917
1
.
C
medium, transfer ASC
.
.
SPR:35 1924
121
1927
1
.
C
12 yr old boy
.
.
.
122
1871
1
.
C
blacksmith
.
.
NYC Herald 9/7/1871
122
1883
10
.
D
Indian firedance ASC
.
.
B. of Ethnology 1883-4
125
1948
1
.
C
Honolulu fakir
.
.
Long 1948
126
.
gr
.
D
Greek religious rite ASC
.
30'
.
127
1952
gr
.
D
Voodoo dancers ASC
.
1'
Bach 1952
129
1936
gr
.
D
Guiana dancers ASC
.
.
Forbes 1936
130
1760
2
.
A
St Medard hysterics ASC
.
.
Dingwall 1947
193
1950
45
1
W
Fiji fire walk
25'
.
Wright 1950
135
1962
30
.
W
Buenos Aires s.soc'y ASC
.
.
.
138
1935
1
2
W
Kuda Bux in England
11'
5"
Price 1936
140
1938
1
.
W
Kuda Bux at Radio City
20'
.
.
141
.
gr
.
W
Fiji fire walk ASC
25'
15"
Hocken 
142
1933
.
.
W
India and Burma
50'
.
Miles 1933
142
1901
1
.
W
Tahitian in Honolulu
.
.
O'Brien 1921
142
.
1
.
W
transfer to author ASC
90'
.
Stevenson
143
.
1
.
W
transfer to author ASC
(see quote below)(2)
.
.
Long 1945:31-7
144
1899
2
.
W
transfer to 2 children
.
.
J. Polynes. Socy 2:1899
145
1899
3
1
W
transfer to 4 Englishmen
(see quote below)(3)
.
.
(ibid:)
146
1936
35
1
W
transfer to American
gr
.
J. Borderline Res. 1949
146
194x
1
.
W
transfer to author
30
.
Menard 1954
147
1933
1
.
W
transfer to author
India
.
.
Long 1948:42-5
148
1922
200
.
W
transfer to many
(see quote below)
13'
.
Thurston 1952:18
150
1949
567
9
W
transfer to many
(Univ. of Hawaii)
(see quote below)
15'
.
Kenn 1949
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General notes: page is the page in the Gaddis book; the date is the approximate date when the occurence took place; N is the number of successful persons; n is the number of burned persons; in each case they somehow disobeyed instructions; Type represents the kind of fire mastery where A - general mastery; B - enduring a blazing pyre; C - handling hot coals; D - a fire dance; W - fire-walking; ASC refers to the fact that the candidates were known to be in a trance or altered state of consciousness, transfer refers to the fact that the ability to pass through fire was transferred by the adept to some one else, not adept in the art, such as a bystander, an observer or the author of the account; I - the length of the firepit in feet; t - the time the participant was observed in the firepit or the time to transit it. Cite - the bibliographic source to be found in the bibliography (SPR
Society for Psychical Research).

Special notes:

1. (Gaddis 1967:118) The Earl of Crawford wrote: "I have frequently seen Home when in a trance go to the fire and take out large red-hot coals and carry them about in his hands. . . . Eight times I have myself held a red-hot coal in my hands without injury. . . ."

2. (Brigham, Long:31f) Dr William T. Brigham of Bishop Museum, Honolulu: "I watched him with my mouth open and he was nearly across,-a distance of 150 It when someone gave me a shove. . . . I do not know what madness seized me but I ran. The heat wag unbelievable. . . . I was never so relieved in my life as I was to find that I was safe, and there was not a blister on my feet."

3. (Journal of Polynesian Soc'y N.Z. March 1899) Col Gudgeon, British resident in Tahiti: "I knew quite well that I was walking on red-hot stones, and could sense the heat, yet I was not burned. I felt something resembling slight electric shocks. . . ."

4. (Thurston, 1952:187ff) Bishop of Mysore, Monsignor Despartes: (a witness): "There must have been 200 people who passed over the embers, and 100 who went right through the middle of the flames" A Caucasian police chief told the bishop: "We felt as though we were in a furnace, but the fire did not burn us."

5. (Kenn, 1949) "Walkers interviewed afterward reported that their minds "were a blank" or that "they were under a spell." Their feet felt "only warm but had a tingling sensation, like the foot going to sleep"

6. It is notable in this table that it is the hands and feet which seem to have the immunity, rather than the whole body. This fact raises the issue of whether the auras which proceed from hands (and putatively the feet, see section 4,15) have a countervailing influence.