Editing Firewalking (section)

==History==
Walking on fire has existed for several thousand years, with records dating back to 1200 BCE.<ref name="watchandlearn">{{cite news | url=http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060814_mm_firewalker.html | title=World's Watch and Learn: Physics Professor Walks on Fire | publisher=[[Livescience.com]] |date=2006-08-14 | first=Corey | last=Binns | access-date =2007-04-13}} (livescience.com)</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=March 2010}} Cultures across the globe use firewalking for rites of healing, initiation, and faith.<ref name="watchandlearn" />

Firewalking is also practiced by:
* The [[Sawau]] clan on the island of [[Beqa]], {{convert|10|km|mi|0|abbr=off}} to the south of [[Viti Levu]] in the [[Fiji|Fijian Islands]].<ref name="Pigliasco">{{cite web | url=https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/1515 | title=The Custodians of the Gift: Intangible Cultural Property and Commodification of the Fijian Firewalking Ceremony. Ph.D. Dissertation | publisher=Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i. Sponsor: Institute of Fijian Language and Culture, Ministry of Institute of Fijian Language and Culture, Ministry of Fijian Affairs, Culture and Heritage | date=2007 | access-date=February 8, 2018 | author=Pigliasco, Guido Carlo}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | title=We Branded Ourselves Long Ago: Intangible Cultural Property and Commodification of Fijian Firewalking | author=Pigliasco, Guido Carlo | journal=[[Oceania (journal)|Oceania]] | date=July 2010 | volume=80 | issue=2 | pages=161–181 | doi=10.1002/j.1834-4461.2010.tb00078.x}}</ref><ref name="Tourism in Beqa">{{cite book | title=Science of Pacific Island Peoples: Education, language, patterns & policy | publisher=Institute of Pacific Studies | author=Burns, Georgette Leah | year=1994 | pages=29 | isbn=978-9820201071 |editor=R. J. Morrison |editor2=Paul A. Geraghty |editor3=Linda Crowl | chapter=Tourism Impact in Beqa | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EpuRnl_ZJoQC&pg=PA29}}</ref><ref name="What is Firewalking">{{cite web | url=https://www.captaincookcruisesfiji.com/blog/what-is-firewalking-in-fiji/ | title=What is Firewalking in Fiji? | publisher=Captain Cook Cruises Fiji | date=February 15, 2016 | access-date=February 8, 2018 | author=Admin}}</ref> The phenomenon was examined in 1902 when it was already a tourist attraction, with a "Probable Explanation of the Mystery" arrived at.<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_35/rsnz_35_00_001290.html | title=Art. XIII.—An Account of the Fiji Fire-walking Ceremony, or Vilavilairevo, with a Probable Explanation of the Mystery | author=Fulton, Robert | journal=[[Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute]] | year=1902 | volume=35 | pages=187–201}}</ref>
* [[San Pedro Manrique]], a village of Soria, Central Spain
* [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox Christians]] in parts of [[Greece]] (see [[Anastenaria]]) and [[Bulgaria]] (see [[nestinarstvo]]), during some popular religious feasts.<ref>Xygalatas, Dimitris, 2012. [http://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=498&keyword= ''The Burning Saints. Cognition and Culture in the Fire-walking Rituals of the Anastenaria''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120902130327/http://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=498&keyword= |date=2012-09-02 }} London: Equinox.  {{ISBN|9781845539764}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1080/02757206.2011.546855|title = Ethnography, Historiography, and the Making of History in the Tradition of the Anastenaria| journal=History and Anthropology| volume=22| pages=57–74|year = 2011|last1 = Xygalatas|first1 = Dimitris|s2cid = 154450368|url = https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/51974539/Ethnography_Historiography_and_the_Making_of_History_in_the_Tradition_of_the_Anastenaria_Hist._Anth.pdf}}</ref>
* Tribes throughout [[Polynesia]], documented in scientific journals (with pictures and chants) between 1893 and 1953.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.umuki.com/articles/Firewalkers_of_the_South_Seas.html |title=Firewalkers of the South Seas &#124; The Fire Walking Temple (Ke Umu Ki Heiau) |publisher=Umuki.com |date=2009-08-22 |access-date=2015-05-19}}</ref>
* The [[Pà Thẻn people]] of Vietnam celebrate the Fire Dancing (or Fire Jumping) Festival, which includes walking, jumping, and dancing over fire and burning embers.<ref>Vũ Quốc Khánh. 2013. ''Người Pà Thẻn ở Việt Nam [The Pa Then in Vietnam]''. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản thông tấn.</ref>