Fakir

Fakir

Background

Fakir is a street magician in India.

During the events of The Vault of Horror (1973) played by Ishaq Bux

Sebastian and Inez are walking through a market in India when they come to a magic act being performed by Fakir with the help of an Indian Girl. Fakir performs the magic basket trick where he has a young boy named Akbar step into a basket apparently blessed by the gods and then stabs a sword multiple times through the basket. Fakir then opens the basket and Akbar stands up in perfect health. He then performs a trick to show supernatural power of the human body to ignore pain. He takes a long knife and stabs it through one side of his cheek to the other side. A member of the crowd exclaims it is a trick and after Fakir says it is not, Sebastian walks up to Fakir and shows the crowd, the real knife is in the Fakir's sleeve. He then spins the basket around to the show it has an opening in which Akbar could climb out of. Sebastian assures the crowd there is no magic involved and identified himself as a fellow magician. The crowd then laughs at Fakir. Later, Fakir performs his tricks in front of a crowd, along with Indian Girl and the Fakir looks towards an open window, at a strangled Sebastian.