Fire blessing

In farming villages there is an old superstitious custom of placing a fire blessing in the top beam of the roof. It is said to protect against lightning, fire and storms. Kurt E. Koch once came across the text of such a fire blessing. It read: “Anno 1645, 24...

Firewalking

There are different forms of firewalking: trickery – autosuggestion – satanism. Firewalking as deception and trickery A former Shinto priest named Kazama, who later found Christ, told Dr. Kurt Koch the following about firewalking: “I was a priest in...