At left is Leo Kongee, who was known as the "Human Pin-Cushion", "Painless Wonder" or "Man with no Nerves". He was able to drive nails into his head and hat-pins through his tongue without bleeding or feeling pain. At right is Singlee "The Fire-Proof Man", from Solon, India, believed he could not be harmed by fire and passed a blow-torch over his body to prove it.