Ibn Battuta — "The juggler then took the limbs of the boy and applied them one to another: he t…"

The juggler then took the limbs of the boy and applied them one to another: he then stamped upon them, and it stood up complete and erect. I was astonished, and was seized in consequence by a palpitation at the heart: but they gave me some drink, and I recovered. The judge of the Mohammedans was sitting by my side, who swore, that there was neither ascent, descent, nor cutting away of limbs, but the whole was mere juggling.
Ibn Battuta — Ibn Battuta Medieval · Greatest medieval traveler

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Witnessing a magic trick in China involving the apparent dismemberment and reassembly of a boy.

Date: c. 1345-1346

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