Rabbi Bar-Cochba
in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian, made the Jews believe that
he was the Messiah, because he had the art of breathing fire. (Beckmann: History of Inventions.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Rabbi Bar-Cochba from Fact Monster:
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