He was one of the few who had the ability to use the part of the brain which most of use never ever think of. Kuda Bux was the subject of a 1950 film titled Kuda Bux, Hindu Mystic, and his apparent ability to see while blindfolded with dough balls strongly influenced British author Roald Dahl in the short story of Henry Sugar, who was taught to develop the same powers.
Observers noted that the unblindfolded Bux required reading glasses to read fine print. Whilst blindfolded Kuda Bux would read the dates on coins which are held on a spectator's hand, read the fine print of a magazine, thread a needle, duplicate words he had never seen written, shoot a bullseye with a pellet gun, and many other mysteries.
According to Robert Ripley, Kuda Bux performed an astonishing feat in Radio City, Manhattan, on August 2, 1938. According to this account, a hole 3 feet deep was dug in the Radio City parking lot and logs and bags of charcoal were set on fire in it. Kuda Bux, so the story goes, walked back and forth through the pit—twice. Ripley said, "Kuda Bux's feet were not even warm." There is newsreel footage of this event in the TV biography (distributed on VHS) Robert Ripley: Believe It or Not (TBS 1993).
According to Vincent J. Daczynski in 1935 he demonstrated fire walking in front of an audience of scientists from the University of London Council for Psychical Research and news reporters. He walked across a twelve foot pit of burning hot coals unscathed. Bux's feet were checked before and after the fire walking demonstration to verify that no protective chemicals, topical creams or herbs were used. It was a very windy day and the surface temperature of the fire was read at 806 degrees Fahrenheit. The body of the fire was measured at 2,552 degrees Fahrenheit which is hot enough to literally melt steel. After Kuda Bux's firewalking through the coals, a cameraman who had messed up some photographs of the event, asked for a retake. Kuda Bux obliged by repeating the firewalk once more. Again, his feet were checked before and after the fire walking demonstration.
[edit] References
- Kuda Bux at the Internet Movie Database
- The Man With X Ray Eyes by Vincent J. Daczynski
- Kuda Bux, Hindu Mystic at IMDB
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