The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-19

by the other priests who were to take part in the curious
One Of the latter held pile of white powder small wooden
stand This said be SALT Japan credited with great
cleansing properties but far could be superficial
examination alum and salt He stood at one end
of the bed and poised tray his head then
handful OF the ground before the glowing bed
in his hands
This process was repeated by the priests at the other
end, at the two sides and at the
Ten minutes less spent and
about the bed of Goals At the end of that
pieces OF wet mating brought and placed
quantity of the white mixture placed upon them
At signal from the head priest who master
MONIES during the succeeding Junction. the ascecs who
perform the first exhibitions of fire walking gathered
OF the bed of GOALS which by this glowing
Among the closely huddled of native consNht
up m position this succeeded by deahke silence throughout
gloomy temple in which might have heard pin drop the
beraon of the cracking GOALS silence
seeming almost hunderous in
WALKED ON GLOWING GOALS
Having raised his hands and Frustrated himself three
fire. the priest about undergo ordeal upon maug
wiped his feet lightly the white mixture and while held
brtahs and aped from their
establishment he walked the glowing unconcerney
if readng drawing his feet coming with
He did hurry long steps, saunered along with
almost incredible ang and before he reached the other side
turned around and saunterd cree back the mat from which
he had started Not the smell of burning reached norl
though his my kmono reached his ankles constantly
blown up above his head by the force OF the heat nvpng
him.
On reganing the side from which
again in the powder before renewing the crossing the fire
this several times Even if advanced by ncre
from being burned 1t impossible to explain why the part of
the body, which thus protected burned his y
garments nted for have ad the intense heat
distance, several yards away, almost mbearable.
After the first priest had walked three times the
delicate He took short steps, his hands csped 'front.'
and he seemed lost contemplation he might ordinary
end the other he acted with the deberaon and dignity
He, in followed by young priest who, carried away
He swung his hands, of which he held FAM back and forth
and lifted each foot high every stamped violently the
atba6
ordeal For five ten minutes the priests passed the GOALS those
engaged keeping monotonous nvocave chant the
doorous But the remarkable and uneanabe part of
The glow of the fire had now somewhat died down. so the coolies
again forward repnish until its intense heat
plainly felt in all of the temple court yard Some of the
spectators selling Ga and half which would
pass the Goals in the But
our little group willing of
experiment. for the kepca baked at the prospect of
the arrangements ntaing less dcomfortng results
The spectators however, for the privilege and
office done among them by the priests The fire
icing highest pitch of heat several of the priests
lightly called those who wished do tie
SOUP had been taken out of the glowing Goals and there no
ianger in the operation
The first go with baby her back She
rward crossed several times After her forty fifty people
and children, walking feae closely fol
owing the other like the mother and her baby returning TO
again seeming enjoy it There three vino
ppeaed hurry the end but this rather because they had
topped sharp because they had received burn
the salt and alum each end had been renewed from
time there who walked when it
icaly exhausted and they could have in contact with little
it As started the fiery pilgrimage the priest with the flint
head while the
their prayers and the waving of fans and gohe
sacred wands)
night became and impressive The L
gowed by contrast and the white robed priests with their
weird the intent faces of the onooker and the
surroundings made imagine for the moment that he
spebond witness of of Doe imaginative drawings
prung into actual being.
japanese and and children about and
unhu, continuous passing the
erce glowing Goals the occasional swirl Of the cooed banners held
priests Pickering of the little red lanterns hung about the
like re and the fascinating spectacle Of the dev
passing supernatural another world through the
ierv combining form indescbaby weird ard