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  • A Fakir man and wife of south India. Gouache painting.
  • [Undated handbill advertising "the Aïssaouas' snake and scorpion eaters" ].
  • A fakir or sadhu. Photograph by E.D. Lyon.
  • The devout Hindu doth meat eschew, he'll live on milk and so could you / National Milk Publicity Council.
  • Benares, India: a fakir sitting on a bed of nails. Photograph by R.C. Mazumdar, ca. 1900 (?).
  • Men and women in India performing various kinds of penance and mortification.. Etching by Giuseppe Filosi.
  • Sri Chaitanya and Gorind Chunder Rai flanked by two devotees. Transfer lithograph.
  • Benares, India: a fakir sitting on a bed of nails. Photograph by R.C. Mazumdar, ca. 1900 (?).
  • The devout Hindu doth meat eschew, he'll live on milk and so could you / National Milk Publicity Council.
  • A Hindu man (sadhu) with long hair, cloak and walking stick stands by a rock from which water springs. Lithograph by L.C. Dickinson, 1844, after Emily Eden.
  • The serpent sacrifice. Chromolithograph.