Sword swallowing was popular in Japan in the 8th century and was often seen as part of an acrobatic form of entertainment known as Sangaku, which also featured juggling, tightrope walking, contortion, and other related skills.
T'ang Dynasty Illustration mid 8th century The art and practice of sword swallowing traveled north from India into China around 750 AD. Swordswallowers are mentioned in 410 AD during the Teutonic fight for Rome. It was reported that several of the initiates die each year from the perforations. There was a video documentary filmed in the 1970s or 80s on this initiation rite of passage, showing many of the canes or vines being removed from the young men's throats covered in blood. Then, reeds are forced up their nostrils and their tongues are stabbed until their blood has been sufficiently purified. Chinnery, the men pushed lengths of flexible cane into their throats until the cane reached their stomachs." The Matausa tribe cleanse their boys of impurity and help them gain the vitality a warrior needs by sticking two wooden canes down their throats until they vomit. Chinnery told of a new native tribe found in New Guinea. This suggests that the time of its transmission from oral to written history would have been about 2000 years ago.Īccording to a June, 1939 article in Tops Magazine, an Independent Magazine of Magic entitled "Primitive Sword Swallowing", a primitive tribe in Papua New Guinea uses a form of "vine-swallowing" in the initiation rites of teens being initiated into adulthood. In the Popul Vuh, the Maya myths, there is mention of the two main Mayan heroes doing stilt-walking and sword-swallowing. Sword swallowing was often seen at festivals throughout the ancient Roman empire. Seeking photos and more information.įrom India, sword swallowing spread to China, Greece, Rome, Europe, and the rest of the world. One of the most famous of the Indian sword swallowers was Ramo Samee "The East Indian Juggler" who performed in the UK and US from 1813 to 1850. Many Konda-Dora speak Telugu as well as or instead of their native Khond. The Konda-Dora language, which is also known as Kubi, is closely related to the Kui language of the Khond, and has borrowed vocabulary from Oriya and Telugu. Etymologically "konda" means "hill", and "dora" means "headman" or "chieftain", hence "Konda-Dora" means "hill chieftain". They believe that they are the descendants of the Pandavas of the Mahabharata. They call themselves Pandava Doras or Pandava Rajas. According to the 1981 Census, their population was 141,374. The Konda-Dora are distributed in the Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Srikakulam and East Godavari districts. Konda-Dora is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Orissa by about 28,000 people. Legend has it that there was said to have been a tribe of sword swallowers known as the Konda-Dora tribe in the state of Andhra Pradesh, now Telangana who would pass on the art of sword swallowing from father to son. Sword swallowers in India are known by the term "golewala" or "jolewale" or "jholewale" or "jholawalla" or "jollahwallah" or "jadoowallah" (meaning "juggler", "busker" or "street performer") or "jagudar" (meaning "magician" or "miracle worker"). Sword swallowing is still performed in a few parts of India today. Some of the earliest known references to sword swallowing were documented over four thousand years ago in India by fakirs and shaman priests who practiced the art around 2000 BC, along with fire-eating, fire-walking on hot coals, laying on cactus or a bed of nails, snake handling, and other ascetic religious practices, as demonstration of their invulnerability, power, and connection with their gods. = sword swallowing injury = known grave site
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