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rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2477 Posts 
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Harley Newman Inner circle 5117 Posts
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I wish everybody would get rid of the line about it starting in India. It was performed in every part of the world.
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus” -Mark Twain
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Lurchenstien New user Hampshire, UK 49 Posts
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I think that's down to the joys of today's media, "copy and paste" articles make up the bulk of what I've found on the internet about sword swallowing.
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erikkloeker Loyal user Cincinnati, Ohio 203 Posts
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Much like syphilis, it must have started somewhere.
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Harley Newman Inner circle 5117 Posts
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Current DNA analysis suggests that syphilis was a skin-borne disease, native to the Americas. The Spaniards were the first Euros to get it, and the ones in whom it turned genital.
Sword swallowing was a shamanic stunt, practiced in much of the Americas. The Mayan Popul Vuh mentions its two main characters as sword swallowers. Plains tribes had societies of sword swallowers. Etc.
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus” -Mark Twain
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Todd Robbins V.I.P. New York 2922 Posts
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And Red Stuart taught them all.
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Martin_Ling Loyal user 269 Posts
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HA! Where is the darn like button in this place! A yes, the three S's Swords, Syphilis, and Stuart!
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Martin_Ling Loyal user 269 Posts
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...three thing you don't want to be at the receiving end of!
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Martin_Ling Loyal user 269 Posts
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...and by that I meant Fisticuffs, of course!
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Doctor Mythsonian New user 92 Posts
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Todd speaks the truth.
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thegreatnippulini Inner circle of Hell because I've made 2582 Posts
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Red invented the syphillis too, he was alive at the time....
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Martin_Ling Loyal user 269 Posts
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Mayan blood rituals also included piercing with stingray spines, bloodletting and my fav, running spiked vine thru their tongues and genitals. New act anyone? "No, really...feel free to steal that act! That's all you man!"
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Harley Newman Inner circle 5117 Posts
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Yes. And the stingray piercings were often genital. I have one of those barbs. I would not want to stick it into myself.
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus” -Mark Twain
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thegreatnippulini Inner circle of Hell because I've made 2582 Posts
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The barbs and thorns were used to aid and increase blood flow for the bloodletting rituals. Scenes of the ritual are found all over in pictoglyphs and such across Mezo-Americas. They were advanced enough to know how to let blood without killing the participant. That's why they chose the tongue and genitals rather than femoral or other faster (lethal) arteries.
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rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2477 Posts
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On 2012-02-01 10:02, Martin_Ling wrote: I heard that the rulers would publicly pierce their bits with stingray spines as a ritual ... now, if Presidential candidates would be required to do this, the field would narrow very quickly and save us all this wrangling. |
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