# fire eating

> the act of putting a flaming object into the mouth and extinguishing it, either as a part of Hindu, Sadhu, or Fakir performance to show spiritual attainment, or as a sideshow or circus act (starting in the late 1880s)

**Wikidata**: [Q493624](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q493624)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_eating)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/fire-eating


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. BBC Things
3. Quora