The annual pin-sticking contest is a bizarre amusement of the rural population of the Wadawa section of Bohemia. In 1928, Bagro, a gypsy king, carried off the honors by embedding 3,200 needles in his arm. The lighthouse man of Chongqing, China, was a peculiar man, to say the least. He went about the streets at night with a lighted red candle, seven or eight inches in length, stuck in the vertex of his skull. He sometimes would act as a human lantern and light the way for Western travelers down the dark and dismal alleys of Chongqing. He was frequently used in this capacity by Robert Smythe, the U.S. Consul in China, and by some officers of the U.S. Navy. Believe It or Not!
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