Definition of Fire walking

1. Noun. The ceremony of walking barefoot over hot stones or a bed of embers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire Walking

fire station
fire stations
fire step
fire stop
fire storm
fire thorn
fire tongs
fire tower
fire tower stairway
fire tree
fire trench
fire truck
fire trucks
fire up
fire walker
fire walking (current term)
fire warden
fire watch
fire watcher
fire watching
fire wheel
fireable
firearm
firearmed
firearms
fireback
firebacks
fireball
fireballer
fireballers

Literary usage of Fire walking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"FIRE-WALKING IN SOUTHERN INDIA. (Vol. xii., p. 446.) In the recently issued Bulletin (vol. iv., No. 1, 1901, p. 55) of the Madras Government Museum, ..."

2. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1901)
"FIRE-WALKING IN INDIA. In the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research (Vol. ... Mr. Beauchamp notes the curious fact that in Lndia fire-walking "is ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Fire-walking was usually associated with the spring festivals and was ... For fire-walking as observed in the Madras presidency sec Indian Antiquary, vii. ..."

4. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1904)
"... CMG, gave an illustrated lecture on "The Fijians and their Fire-walking. ... FIRE-WALKING. THE Author explained that the object of his Paper was to ..."

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