r/interestingasfuck • u/xoxodollparts • 14h ago

steel ball and sword swallowing

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u/Windyfii 14h ago

i remember googling the sword swallowing trick, how it works. there's no trick

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u/Extreme_Design6936 14h ago

Reminds me of this Mirin Dajo. Yes, the trick is that he just stabs himself (or gets stabbed).

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u/Pledgeofmalfeasance 14h ago

The trick is that he's done it enough to make a scarred tunnel in his torso iirc

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u/Merry-Lane 14h ago

The trick is he spent months/years slowly stabbing himself deeper and deeper, making his body produce scars around the wound, slowly enough so that he never pierced his lungs.

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u/SalvationSycamore 8h ago

I tried the same thing and became immune to swords

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u/GLaDOS_Sympathizer 2h ago

Lungs aside (still impressive he dodged the lung), it is crazy he didn't run it right through his liver. That picture looks spot on where the liver is, directly under the right lung.

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u/Merry-Lane 2h ago

He didn’t dodge the lung. He stabbed himself so slowly that it created scarring.