The variant Indian wrist burn occurs in “Where Did You Go?” “Out.” “What Did You Do?” “Nothing.” ( New York: W. He twisted Otto’s wrist in an Indian burn. Otto’s hat tumbled to the ground and he gave it a gratuitous kick into the shadows. “All right, drop it or I’ll break your arm.” In an instant he was across the distance between them with his hands on Otto’s wrists. The term then occurs in the following passage from The Lion and the Honeycomb (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954), by Siegel Fleisher: Judy managed to hang Juanita in the rope upside down for two minutes but paid for her tactics as Juanita developed rope and Indian burn and dropkicked the blonde Canadian out of the ring and into the laps of several gentlemen who were not too pleased acting as breakfalls for Judy. And, despite suffering severe punishment from Rae’s wrist grip and Indian burn-four minutes straight at one stretch-he threw the New Englander with a leg bend and body hold after 21 minutes and 20 seconds.Ģ-: A wrestling match between Juanita Coffman and Judy Kawal-account published in the Estherville Daily News (Estherville, Iowa) of Friday 4 th April 1952:įull blooded Oklahoma Indian, Juanita went on the warpath after Kawal, from Canada, performed an Indian rope trick by suspending and unending Juanita in the ring ropes. He was no Paddock on his feet, of course, but he moved around with surprising agility and grace for a big man. The first two occurrences of Indian burn that I have found are from accounts of wrestling matches:ġ-: A wrestling match between Tor Johanson and Tommy Rae-account published in the Binghamton Press (Binghamton, New York) of Wednesday 5 th May 1937: The allusion is to the fiendish methods of torture attributed to the ‘ (Red) Indians’, i.e., the Native Americans.
This term occasionally occurs in extended use. A synonym of Chinese burn, the American-English term Indian burn designates an act of placing both hands on a person’s wrist or forearm and then twisting it to produce a burning sensation.
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