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 Ravi the Scorpion Mystic, aka Ram Sagar Seepersad, is living every young boy's dream of running away from home with the circus!
A contortionist with a wildly flexible body he's performed all over the east coast, including the Coney Island Circus Sideshow, Six Flags, Le Scandal Burlesque/Cabaret, The Circus By the Sea, and Disgraceland Family Freak-show.
He hails from Trinidad, and is known professionally as the Scorpion Mystic, because, he says, at the age of 2 he was stung by a scorpion and that contributed to his unusual body development. "As a child I always wanted to do something different from what my friends were doing," says Ravi who weighs just 95 pounds. "I studied flexibility and taught myself to do certain things that no one else could." He's also a hair suspension aerialist and has studied Shaolin Kung Fu and is currently being coached in knife throwing by The Great Throwdini.
 This Manhattan circus saga has a perfect happily-ever-after ending, for Ravi's beautiful wife Candice, also from Trinidad, often performs right alongside him, doing the blade box and electric chair acts.
She's also a sumptuous snake charmer who's worked with 15 feet long Albino Pythons. For Ravi, life is a circus as he performs at private, public and corporate affairs. He's constantly striving to set new world records in the art of contorting. He says, "Seeing people's reactions is the most fun part of what I do! That's how I still make friends."
  
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