Sword swallowing

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The sword eater Johnny Fox at the Maryland Renaissance Festival

Swallowing the sword is a performance art in which the artist inserts a sword through his mouth into the esophagus or stomach . The name is actually misleading, as the acrobats have to suppress their nausea and not swallow the sword while it is in their throat .

Swallowing the sword is a life-threatening activity that, if unsuccessful, can result in serious medical complications.

literature

• Brian Witcombe, Dan Meyer: Sword swallowing and its side effects , BMJ , December 23, 2006, 333: 1285-1287 (this work was awarded the satirical Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2007 )

Web links

Commons : Swallowing the Sword  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Slashed esophagus: Please do not disturb - sword swallowers at work , on spiegel.de, from December 22, 2006
• A taste of the science of sword swallowing ( Memento from March 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) New Scientist: Sword swallowing in the X-ray video (0:17 min)