Haji Ali was probably born in Egypt, but that is not known for sure, it is just an assumption. Just as it is not known how he was able to swallow fifty hazelnuts ... and a few almonds, and then expel them from the womb in the order that the audience asks of him.

Vaudeville is a short play interwoven with humorous monologues, couplets, which was extremely popular in Western Europe and America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and which included a much wider range of diverse performances.

The man known as Hadji Ali was the star of those performances. He was probably born in Egypt around 1897, and he became world famous at the beginning of the last century, when he performed before crowned heads like the Russian Tsar Nikolai, in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. He later went to America.

But he became famous for his ability to regurgitate, that is, to vomit what he had swallowed. It goes without saying that he swallowed everything and anything. He knew that water was poured and then kerosene, and that he then played not only a human flamethrower by vomiting kerosene, but also a firefighter by vomiting water. And alternately.

He swallowed incredible amounts of fluid: from sixty to a hundred glasses of water, which he then vomited in a controlled jet over a long period of time that could last almost a minute. Human fountain!

What else was he doing? In addition to swallowing goldfish, watches, coins, jewelry, paper money, stones, live mice, and billiard balls, the standard part of his performance involved putting eight or more cigarettes in his mouth; but, instead of inhaling the smoke, he would swallow it, and after a while, he would start throwing it out of his mouth, imitating a volcanic eruption.

Another of his famous tricks was to swallow thirty to fifty whole, unopened hazelnuts, with a slightly smaller number of almonds. Then he would throw out the hazelnuts one by one; when the audience asked for almonds, he would throw out the almonds, and then continue with the hazelnuts.

At the same time, he approached the audience who could listen to his stomach. He performed the same trick with cloth handkerchiefs, only it was even more incredible, because he knew how to swallow three to six pieces of different colors, and then throw them out in the order required by the audience.

Various explanations were provided to explain this unusual phenomenon. For example, it has been speculated, without evidence, that he held almonds in his mouth that he did not swallow in order to perform the hazelnut trick; as for handkerchiefs, some thought he was soaking them in different aromas, so that when he threw them out he knew which one was which. But while that explanation for hazelnuts somewhat diminishes the wonder of his "powers," the latter deprives him of almost nothing.

During the performance, he was also questioned by experts, who did not understand at all how he was doing it, after they determined that he was really vomiting in a controlled way.

In the thirties, his performances ended in films, and he passed away as a relatively young man, in Wolverhampton, England, on November 5, 1937, when he was only fifty. His heart had failed.

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