Fire-walking ceremony on Beqa Island, Fiji

Fire-walking ceremony on Beqa Island, Fiji. According to legend over 500 years ago the men of Beqa Island were given the gift of being able to walk on fire by an eel in exchange for its life. After a 19th century photgraph. From Customs of The World, published c.1913.

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