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Fire eating
Extinguishing a flaming object in the mouth / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Fire eater" redirects here. For other uses, see Fire eater (disambiguation).
Fire eating is the act of putting a flaming object into the mouth and extinguishing it. A fire eater can be an entertainer, a street performer, part of a sideshow or a circus act but has also been part of spiritual tradition in India.
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