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fire eating

the act of putting a flaming object into the mouth and extinguishing it, either as a part of Hindu, Sadhu, or Fakir performance to show spiritual attainment, or as a sideshow or circus act (starting in the late 1880s)
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fire eating

Summary

fire eating ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (799 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • fire eating is a type of circus skill[2].
  • fire eating's practiced by is recorded as fire eater[3].

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Definition and Type

fire eating is a type of circus skill[2].

Why It Matters

fire eating ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (799 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[4] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[5]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → fire-eating
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: fire-eating, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289925484|fire eating (#289925484)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  2. 17w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Practiced by → fire eater
    Subclass of → circus skill
    Subclass of → —
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q713197]], разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect [[Q4990963]] → [[Q713197]] ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/KrBotResolvingRedirect/Q4990963_Q713197|по"
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