World Sword Swallowers Day A Cutting-Edge Holiday For Blade Gobblers
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Sword swallowers all over the world will be participating in a global gulp on Saturday at 2:22 p.m. local time.
After being practiced for more than 4,000 years, it’s safe to say sword swallowing is one of the oldest forms of entertainment.
It’s also one of the least understood, according to Dan Meyer, president of Sword Swallowers Association International and one of a few dozen people in the world who practice the art.
Meyer has shoved thousands of various ― and often sharp ― objects down his gullet for 25 years but says people still think it’s fake.
“I was doing a show in Muncie, Indiana, and I had an esophageal surgeon on stage and he still didn’t think it was real,” Meyer told HuffPost.
Meyer also laments that the very real ways sword swallowers have helped non-object-ingesting humans have been ignored.
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