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  2. Fire performance - Wikipedia

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    Fire performance is usually performed with props that have specifically been made for the purpose. Fire torches, fire staffs, fire poi, fire hula hoops, fire whips, and other fire props are all readily available. Poi – A pair of roughly arm-length chains with handles attached to one end, and bundle of wicking material on the other.

  3. List of magic tricks - Wikipedia

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    This article contains a list of magic tricks. In magic literature, tricks are often called effects . Based on published literature and marketed effects, there are millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of such effects.

  4. Fire eating - Wikipedia

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    Fire eating trick Brian Brushwood performing fire eating tricks. A fire eating trick performed at a bar in New York City A set of simple cast iron fire eating torches Video of fire eating. 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 ...

  5. Fire breathing (circus act) - Wikipedia

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    Fire breathing has a wider range of risks due to the required technique to create the effect. Having an actively spotting trained safety assistant with an appropriate fire blanket and fire extinguisher is an appropriate best practice when fire breathing and is a mandatory clause in most insurance policies for professional fire breathers. [1] [2]

  6. Sky lantern - Wikipedia

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    On 1 July 2013 the 'largest fire ever' in the West Midlands of England, involving 100,000 tonnes of recycling material and causing an estimated £6 million worth of damage, was started by a sky lantern which landed at a plastics recycling plant in Smethwick. Images of the lantern starting the fire were captured on closed-circuit television.

  7. Fire manipulation - Wikipedia

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    Fire manipulation may refer to: Fire performance , a group of performance arts or skills that involve the manipulation of fire Pyrokinesis , the purported psychic ability allowing a person to create and control fire with the mind

  8. Rope trick effect - Wikipedia

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    Rope trick effects visible from one of Operation Tumbler–Snapper's tower-mounted test shots in 1952, taken with a rapatronic camera. The adjacent photograph shows two unusual phenomena: bright spikes projecting from the bottom of the fireball, and the peculiar mottling of the expanding fireball surface.

  9. Presto (film) - Wikipedia

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    Fed up with Alec's behavior, Presto storms backstage after him, but releases a set of hanging stage props and gets his foot caught in a rigging rope. He is yanked up into the fly space above the stage; when his foot comes loose, he falls and finds himself in danger of being crushed by both the props and a falling piano. Realizing this, Alec ...