How many sword swallowers ??

[firegirl]

...and, here i thought that you guys did...

my bad... oops!
firegirl

[nick nickolas]

Well through my reserch from everyones input, I make it 137.
Here they are........
Mabye some names are doubled I'm not sure, let us all know if that is the case....

p.s. I can't believe I forgot Andrew either !
I havn't had any emails for 2 days mabye he has Antruue Mantruud me !

Gareth Master of Fire and Steel
Lucky Rich
Space Cowboy
Captain Frodo
Amy Saunders
Hefty Geoff
Shamus
Johnny Fox
Jewels
Dale(KeyWest)
Tim Cridland AKA Zamora
Andrew Elliot from Australia
Tom Silectomy
Red Stuart
Bill Berry (From Team Rootberry)
Philip DePalo (From Motion Fest)
Keith (From Bindelstiff)
Chinese circus performer swallowing a long neon bulb
Tyler Fyre
Todd Robbins
Fredini.
Jim Mackenzie
"The Bastard son of Tommy Cooper"
fracksfreakshow
St Mathew in Perth
Franck from Archaos (used to do violin bows as well).
"Stromboli & Silvia"
Megan Evans
Saracen the Sword Swallower
Sideshow Bennie
Erik Sprague
Robert Wolf
John Bradshaw 
Frank Hartman
 Todd Robbins
Travis Fessler
William Darkë
Will Dashing 
Tyler Fleet
Tony Duncan 
Todd Knight
Thom Sellectomy
"Professor Otto Knowbetter"
Roderick Russell
"Derek" Daisy 'N Derek
Mark Young
Twilight Circus
Moz the Fire-Breathing SwSw
Steve Yeates
ICE
Miss Leane
Miss Diane
"István Betyár"
David Kaplan
"Molotov Bouvier
"Roderick Russell"
Andrew Dineen
"Saracen"
Frank Fend
Dai Andrews"Solitaire"
Bill Berry
Thomas Blackthorne
Claudio Borgh
iEvan Burns
Brad Byers
Marco Cardona
"Hammel Il Saracino
"Michael DayMick"
"Joey Joey
Jeff Collins
"Ken Dean"Kondini"
Pétur Finnbjörnsson"Pétur Pókus"
Tyler Fleet
Philip DePalo
Tony Duncan
"Amazing Blazing Tyler Fyre"
Niklas Folkegĺrd"Vazir"
Rodolfo Guani
Frank Hartman
Charon Henning
Hans Werner Hegi
"Ses Carny"
"Peter Pain"
"István Noumenon"
Moz Wright
Robert Wolf
Tobias Weinberger
"Will Dashing"
"Wasp Boy
Marek Dudek
Christina Dudek
"Natasha Veruschka
John Kamikaze Prince of Pain"
"Queen of the Neon Swords"
"Chicken I Joe"
"Mahatma Singh"
"Red Trower"
Malakai"
"Big John Strong
Ian Stewart
John Steevey"
The Lizardman"
"Damien Blade"
Oliver Sabbar
"Oliver Ćdeldolk"
"Oliver Brüsch
"Edward D. Robinson
"Phoenix Blaze"
"Xoma the Monkey Boy"
"Lord Xavier King of all Jonglears"
Jason Queck
Sven Yngve Oscarsson
Tom Orchard"Orchanté
"Emil Ondrácék"
Mr. Pennygaff"
"Countess Vanessa"
"Halfdan The Human Dipstick"
"The Czar of Bizarre"
"George The Giant"
David Markha"The Miracle Man"
Jim MacKenzie"SegueMan
"Olle Lövgren
"Mr. Hyde"
Martin Lundström
"Fakiren Orthae"
Capt. Don Leslie
"Mr. Sideshow"
Human Marvels
"Enigma"
Sebastian Kuehn
Dan Snyder
Dan Meyer
Slim Price
Saracino
Ian Stewart
Patrick Freeman
Phoenix Blaze

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[Julia]

So it looks like you've put some time into this Nick.

good Job!

A hole bunch of these people are not working anymore and several people are double listed even triple or quadruple...

From the top of your list,

Megan Evans - i think hasnt done it in years
Tyler Fleet, Tyler Fyre, amazing blazing.... all tthe same person works Coney Island
Miss Leane - swedish old lady hasn't worked since the 80's
Bill Berry - Listed twice
Moz - listed twice or more
Natasha Veroushka and Queen of Neon - same person
Robert wolf -listed twice
Chicken I Joe /mahatma sighn / Jan Unestam - same person ( Circus cirkör - Stockholm)
Eric Sprague=Lizardman same person
Sven Yngve Oskarsson - not done it for years
Emil From Prague listed twice
Mr Pennygaff = Keith Nelson /Bindlestiff fam circ.
Halfdan=Dan Meyer (he will definitely know the full list since he is the author of swordswallow.com and.org and organises the sword swallowers convention, dan the man)
Olle Lövgren=Mr Hyde (i don't think he is doing it anymore)
Martin Lundström =Orthae (brand new)
Saraceno, its all the same person with saracen in the name and there are like 3 or 4 of them on the list
Ian stweart x 2
Istvan x 2
Dan Snyder/malakai i think is the same person, but i dont know if he is doing it, he had just learnt last year and the went and had an accident during the convention, so he might be out, it looked pretty bad.


Ok appart from that there is at least two guys in Moscow who swallow swords, one old and on that i worked with, and maybe his old partner too they are called Russian Extreme and are not on the list yet, need more research on that one.

As far as women its from what i have learnt
there is Amy, Natasha and me who i know and have seen and am sure of,
then countess vanessa of whoom there is just one article on the net, but noone seems to have ever seen, though i might be wrong,
there is christina dudek i think working in florida heard about her working through an agent who books them sometimes.
thats it for now.
oh, there is Charon , who also just learnt under a year ago, not being a performer, but i thnk just somebody interested in the sideshow, she was at the convention, but then when she learnt soon after the convention, she had an accident too so maybe she is out.

I suggest if anyone wants more info Dan Mayer is the dude to talk to.
It may well be that there is about 50 people who are performers and make their living out of swordswallowing, but as a skill there are i would say more. noone ever seems to mention anything about India, and i am sure there are some there, i think the number of 43 or about 50 comes from a relatively tight circle of people, performers of the same kind, well more or less, i think that for instance that more people are familiar with the name Nick Nickolas than those who have seen a real sword swallower. thats just made up statistics, but i thnk it sounds good...

so that list that i just gave minus about another 10 from the list that Nick put out cos of things i don#t know and things i haven't noticed , we are getting closer to the real numbers as far as the western world is conserned.
Yours,
jewels

[Vantage]

Again,

3 Dudeks Swallowing swords in Orlando.
Christina,
Lukasz,
and Christina's husband (Mark??)

so that adds a few to Nicks list

James Ashton

[fracksfreakshow]

and frack is here saying he is the only sword swallowing/penis weight lifter in the world. yep yep am saying that. wanna see jewels?

[Julia]

So.... no new tricks then Frack? Perhaps if you gathered alittle more I'd have a look

Jewels

[Rev]

You definitely want to see the new design of the Pickled Brothers website, though.

http://www.pickledbrothers.com

[fracksfreakshow]

yep yep, frack has a few new good ones. just the penis one is the crowds favorite and fracks favorite to do and show off. but frack has definitley got a few new ones worth checking out and jewels attention.

[Julia]

Dear Frack!
Please don't forget that you are dealing with a lady, so please alittle more tasteful

Jewels

[Rev]

Frack tasteful?

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I'm lucky if I can make him keep his pants on when we do children's birthday parties...

[fracksfreakshow]

of course frack is always tasteful. just cause 16 year old girls stalk frack. and that time with the pants off at the kids party wasn't fracks fault. the kids mom for some reason asked frack to go into her bedroom and then she accidentally spilled some water on frack. but yep yep always tasteful to one as lovely as jewels.

[Amy]

Lets think about this..
And im sure Mr Elliot would agree, but there is probably 100s more, in India, s'just they dont seem to be logging on to pnet or swordswallower.com
And wouldnt dream of casting aspersions on anyones character, but lady?
hee hee..
x