Kuda Bux
Kuda Bux | |
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| Born | 17 February 1905 |
| Died | 5 February 1981 (aged 75) |
| Occupation | Magician |
Kuda Bux (17 February 1905 – 5 February 1981), born Khudah Bukhsh, was a Pakistani mystic, magician and firewalker.[1][2][3]
Performances
Blindfolds
In one of his best known performances he would cover his eyes with soft dough balls, blindfold himself, swath his entire head in strips of cloth, and yet still be able to see.[citation needed]
Bux was the star of a 1950 TV series titled Kuda Bux, Hindu Mystic, and his apparent ability to see while blindfolded with dough balls strongly influenced British author Roald Dahl in his short story "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar", about a man who was taught to develop the same powers.[4] Observers noted that without a blindfold Bux required reading glasses to read fine print. While blindfolded he would read the dates on coins which were held in a spectator's hand, read the fine print of a magazine, thread a needle while covered in a wine barrel, duplicate words he had never seen written, shoot a can on children's heads with a pellet gun, and many other tricks.[5]
Kuda Bux was always known for being a great magician, and have a lot of bux. He was very rich like his best friend Henry Sugar, who screwed himself over with his wife in 1983 when Kuda bux died.
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Personal life
Khudah Bukhsh was born in Akhnur, Kashmir in 1905, to an ethnic Kashmiri family.[6][7] His father worked as a railway ticket inspector. Bukhsh later became a Pakistani citizen.[2][8][9][3] In the mid-1930s, he arrived in the United States where he pursued his practice of magic.[7] When he was thirteen, he set out to learn magic from Professor Moor, a famous magician at the time. He eventually met Banerjee in Hardwar, a yogi who taught him fire walking and seeing without his eyes. In his later life, he lost his eyesight to glaucoma. He was also known as DareDevil or The Man Who Can See Without His Eyes. He died in 1981 in his sleep, aged 75.[10]
References
- ^ "The Man With X-Ray Eyes-Kuda Bux". Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ a b Tom Solomon (1 March 2017). Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine. Liverpool University Press. pp. 90–. ISBN 978-1-78138-867-9.
- ^ a b Stefanie Syman (22 June 2010). The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 140–. ISBN 978-1-4299-3307-0.
- ^ "The Amazing Eyes of Kuda Bux". Roald Dahl Fans. 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- ^ ""The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar"". Roald Dahl Fans. 30 November 2015.
- ^ Mac Freedom Long (1 March 2013). The Secret Science Behind Miracles. Start Publishing LLC. pp. 24–. ISBN 978-1-62558-182-2.
- ^ a b Cheri Revai (14 January 2008). Haunted New York City: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Big Apple. Stackpole Books. pp. 56–. ISBN 978-0-8117-4073-9.
- ^ Cosmopolitan. Schlicht & Field. 1959.
- ^ The World Almanac Book Of The Strange. 1977.
- ^ Kuda Bux at IMDb