FAKIR’S FEATS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1939, Page 11

FAKIR’S FEATS

BURIED FOR TEN MINUTES. Distinguished doctors, laymen and women left their seats in the auditorium at the Queen's Hall. London, recently, and thronged the stage when Dr Tahra Bey, the fakir and psychic, gave a performance. Dr Tahra. who wore flowing white robes, had a 2001 b stone broken on his body with a heavy hammer. Long needles were threaded through his flesh. At a touch of his hand, a lively hen lay flat on its back, one foot poised in the air. and was restored to normal by a second touch some minutes afterwards. A rabbit was subjected to the same form of control, or "animalhypnotism.”

Dr Tahra was buried alive in full view of the audience for 10 minutes, sand being heaped into the coffin which contained him and banked round the sides and surface. He emerged with little trace of his experience. His most convincing feats were in the sphere of telepathy and thought transmission. A young woman at the back of the audience was told that she was a nurse by profession and that her thoughts were centred on an appointment to another hospital. Dr Tahra Bey was described on the programme as Founder of the Institute of Tahraism of Cairo, and as the Worldfamous Egyptian Fakir and Psychic. Throughout the evening his discourse with the audience was in French.