It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer. Harry Houdini Read Quote
I have made compacts with fourteen different persons that whichever of us died first would communicate with the other if it were possible, but I have never received a word. Harry Houdini Read Quote
The great day of the Fire-eater – or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater – has passed. Harry Houdini Read Quote
No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth. Harry Houdini Read Quote
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public. Harry Houdini Read Quote
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. Harry Houdini Read Quote
Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol. Harry Houdini Read Quote
It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets. Harry Houdini Read Quote
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. Harry Houdini Read Quote
