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{{Short description|Practice of walking over hot embers or stones}} {{Redirect|Firewalk}} [[File:Fire Walking (1234969885).jpg|thumb|right|260px|Firewalking in [[Sri Lanka]]]] '''Firewalking''' is the act of walking [[barefoot]] over a bed of hot [[ember]]s or stones. It has been practiced by many people and cultures in many parts of the world, with the earliest known reference dating from [[Iron Age India]] {{circa|1200 BCE}}. It is often used as a [[rite of passage]], as a test of strength and courage, and in religion as a test of faith.<ref name="History of Firewalking">{{cite web|title=Firewalking|url=https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A1152947|website=H2G2|date=22 October 2003 |access-date=2025-03-04|ref=10/22/2003}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pankratz|first=Loren|date=1988|title=Fire Walking and the Persistence of Charlatans|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/content/crossref/journals/perspectives_in_biology_and_medicine/v031/31.2.pankratz.html|journal=Perspectives in Biology and Medicine|volume=31|issue=2|pages=291β298|doi=10.1353/pbm.1988.0057|pmid=3281133|s2cid=40278024|issn=1529-8795|via=Project Muse|url-access=subscription}}</ref> [[File:Takao Firewalking 2016 3 13.webm|thumb|260px|Firewalking festival in [[Japan]], 2016]] [[Modern physics]] has explained the phenomenon, concluding that the foot does not touch the hot surface long enough to burn and that embers are poor conductors of heat.<ref name="Willey_David">{{cite web|last=Willey|first=David|title=Firewalking Myth vs Physics|url=http://www.pitt.edu/~dwilley/Fire/FireTxt/fire.html|publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh]]|access-date=June 29, 2010}}</ref>
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