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Updated: May 10, 2025
Some observers claim they are rendered insensible to pain by self-induced hypnotism. An account by Carpenter of the Algerian Aissaoui contained the following lucid description of the performances of these people: "The center of the court was given up to the Aissaoui. These were 12 hollow-checked men, some old and some young, who sat cross-legged in an irregular semicircle on the floor.
By means of singing and dancing the Aissaoui, in the Algerian town of Constantine, throw themselves into an ecstatic state in which their bodies seem to be insensible even to severe wounds. Hellwald says they run sharp-pointed irons into their heads, eyes, necks, and breasts without apparent pain or injury to themselves.
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