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    Snake charming is the practice of appearing to hypnotize a snake (often a cobra) by playing and waving around an instrument called a pungi. A typical performance...
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    employs circular breathing. In street performances, the pungi is used for snake charming. The pungi is a Hindu folk music reed pipe instrument that is mostly...
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    India technically prohibits snake charming on the grounds of reducing animal cruelty. Other types of snake charmers use a snake and mongoose show, where...
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    Indian cobra (category Snakes of Asia)
    Tirthankara, who is often shown with a canopy of snake hoods as a sign of divine protection. Snake charming has traditionally featured the Indian cobra as...
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  • Snake charmer or snake charming most commonly refers to the Indian practice of "hypnotizing" snakes. Snake charmer may also refer to: Snake charmer song...
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  • Clownfish Blues by Tim Dorsey, in which worm grunting is a plot element. Snake charming Sutton, Keith (2007-03-20). "Fiddling for worms". ESPN. Retrieved 2023-10-17...
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    The Kalbelia are a snake charming tribe from the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India. The dance is an integral part of their culture and performed by men and...
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  • Charming Snakes is an album by the English musician Andy Summers. It was released in 1990. Summers promoted the album by opening the 1991 Montreal International...
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    with much of his oeuvre, the artist could not possibly have witnessed. Snake charming was not part of Ottoman culture, but it was practiced in ancient Egypt...
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  • said to have separated from the Sansi parent group when they took up snake charming. The majority of the Bangali are now settled, occupying their settlements...
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    where people of different caste backgrounds took to the occupation of snake charming, and over time evolved into a distinct community. They now have Scheduled...
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    mime, living statue, musical performance, one man band, puppeteering, snake charming, storytelling or reciting poetry or prose, street art such as sketching...
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    and dances of Rajasthan 2010 Performing arts Rajasthan Kalbeliya is a snake charming tribe. They perform dance on traditional music. 00340 Mudiyettu, ritual...
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  • The majority of the Bedes live on snake related trading, such as snake charming (training), snake catching, snake selling, etc. They also sell lucky...
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  • song was considered "a slinky, vintage-sounding track with a hypnotic, snake-charming whistle," and likened to imitating Janet Jackson. The song is performed...
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  • Tum Mere Ho (category Films about snakes)
    being so bad it's good. Shiva (Aamir Khan) is blessed with magical snake-charming powers. When he meets Paro (Juhi Chawla) from a nearby village, he falls...
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    pungi[citation needed] (a woodwind folk instrument used primarily for snake charming). The counterparts to the shehnai played in Western India and Coastal...
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  • Retrieved 9 December 2019. "THE SNAKE PARK, The Register". Register. 19 March 1927. p. 13 – via Trove. "SNAKE-CHARMING, The West Australian". West Australian...
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    publisher who is depicted on the left-hand side of the fourth-floor façade snake-charming. The sculpture's background is a satirical article and the ensuing lawsuit...
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  • farmers, animal dealers, or performers specialising in juggling, magic or snake-charming. The Jōgī, or Jugī, are found in northern Afghanistan and are organised...
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    conjurers, ayurvedic healers, jugglers, acrobats, actors, storytellers, snake charmers, animal doctors, tattooists, grindstone makers, or basketmakers...
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  • and Scandinavia. During his retirement, he took the fire eating and snake charming part of his show, created a famous cabaret act and worked in films....
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  • a penchant for snake charming. Coriolanus provides her with a compact to smuggle rat poison into the Games and familiarizes the snake mutations with her...
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  • Danny Glover hypnotizes a rooster in the 1990 film To Sleep with Anger. Snake charming Trout tickling Gallup, G.G., Jr., Nash, R.F., Potter, R.J. and Donegan...
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  • whom the Vedic priests taught Itihasa, the Atharvaveda, the art of snake-charming (sarpa-vidya), and demonology (deva-jana-vidya). The other groups included...
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  • and Africa. In India, snake charming is a traditional roadside show. The snake charmer carries a basket that contains a snake to which he plays tunes...
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    verification] In Rajasthan, the Kalbelia tribe is engaged in dance and snake charming. During the Chand and Gurkha dynasties (c. 700-1816 CE) in northern...
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    ceiling-walking acrobat by the name of Palmer who introduced her to the art of snake charming. A record of her marriage to John Palmer in Walworth, Surrey, England...
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  • Conquered by the nomadic Nasamones, the Psylli became a well-known snake-charming sect." Of the Psylli, Herodotus described "a tribe that met with extinction"...
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  • son of a seventh son and seems to possess mystical powers, including snake-charming, levitation and hypnotism. He is proficient in judo, as well, which...
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