I saw this in a movie a long time ago, I assume it is true. This guy was swallowing a very long strip of gauze. He said he would continue the swallowing process for as long as it takes to come out the other end. This was some kind of internal cleansing ritual. Has anyone ever heard of a belief system that condones this type of behavior?
If I remember correctly, the movie was Crumb, and the guy doing this procedure was Crumb’s brother.