Page:Hocus pocus, or, The whole art of legerdemain in perfection (2).pdf/15

 earthen pot, in the fashion of a chamber-pot,  something narrow upon the top, then set fire  it. and the room will seem to them that are in to be all on fire; nay, themselves will flap their  and clothes, thinking they are all on fire,  there is nobody hurt, unless it be with. Have a care of shewing it to women child in the room, for yourself would be  if you did not know the trick.

Anoint your tongue with liquid storax, and you put a pair of tongs into your mouth red hot,  hurting yourself, and lick them till they  cold, by the help of this ointment, and by  your mouth thus, you may take wood-coal out of the fire, and eat them as you would, dip them into brimstone powder, and the  will seem more strange, but the sulphur puts  the coal, and shutting your mouth close puts  the sulphur, and so they chump the coals and  them, which they may do without offending the body; but if they were bound to  nothing else, it would be a very sickly trade;  if you put a piece of lighted charcoal into  mouth, you may suffer a pair of bellows to  a-blowing in your mouth continually, and receive no hurt, but your mouth must be quickly , otherwise it will cause a salivation: it  a very dangerous thing to be done, and altho'  that practise it, use all the means they can  prevent danger, yet I never saw any one of  fire-eaters that had a good complexion, the  I could give, but it is known to the sons