![]() ![]() : 217 Firewalking Īccording to Robert Ripley, Bux performed a trick in NBC Radio City Studios in Manhattan on 2 August 1938. ![]() Bux once cycled along Broadway in New York City while blindfolded. While blindfolded he would read the dates on coins which were held in a spectator's hand, read the fine print of a magazine, thread a needle while covered in a wine barrel, duplicate words he had never seen written, shoot a can on children's heads with a pellet gun and many other tricks, such as those with a blindfold. Observers noted that without a blindfold Bux required reading glasses to read fine print. : 217īux was the star of a 1950 TV series titled Kuda Bux, Hindu Mystic, and his apparent ability to see while blindfolded with dough balls strongly influenced British author Roald Dahl in his short story " The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar", about a man who was taught to develop the same powers. In one of his best known performances he would cover his eyes with soft dough balls, blindfold himself, swath his entire head in strips of cloth, and yet still be able to see. ![]() Kuda Bux (17 February 1905 – 5 February 1981), born Khudah Bukhsh, was a Pakistani mystic, magician and firewalker. ![]()
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