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A young participant runs over a bed of hot coals with bare feet in the climax of the annual fire-walking festival to mark the coming spring at Mount Takao in Hachioji, Japan yesterday,

They say that ash is a poor conductor of heat and will not burn you as long as you do not keep your feet down on the ground for very long.

I tend to beleive that, Shutup and Deal, Im Losin'. :)

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Originally posted by timetraveler:
Try telling that to an old childhood friend of my mums who still has the scars on her feet from walking on what she had thought were the cold ashes of a house that had burned nearly two days before. My mums 67 now, but she still remembers what happened. Even though the girl had shoes & socks on, her feet still got toasted in a major way.

If you were to leave your feet there for very long, yes, it would burn the tar out of you. But those people on TV hop very quickly through it, never leaving their feet on the ground for more than about a second.