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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 may also include handling the snakes or performing other seemingly dangerous acts, as well as other street performance staples, like juggling and sleight of hand .
The pungi [3] [4] [5] is a Hindu folk music reed pipe instrument [6] that is mostly played by cobra charmers [7] in Sindh and Rajasthan. [8] The instrument is made from a dry hollowed gourd with two bamboo attachments. [9]
Snake Charmers 1868. The Kalbelia are a snake charming tribe from the Thar Desert in Rajasthan , India. [ 1 ] The dance is an integral part of their culture and performed by men and women.
Snake charmers were once a regular fixture, but their tradition is dying out due to changes in wildlife protection laws. Snake charmers were once a regular fixture, but their tradition is dying ...
Snake charmers typically need 6 to 7 cobras each year to replace those that perish. These snake charmers in Jaipur, India have set up their act on the sidewalk in a busy tourist area.
In Egypt's premier Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, snake charmer Amier El Refaie puts some of the world's most dangerous snakes to sleep. Refaie, who has been charming snakes for the past five ...
Ali Khan Samsudin, (January 3, 1958 – December 1, 2006 in Kuala Lumpur) was a snake charmer known as Malaysia's "Snake King". He earned the title after living with 400 cobras, for 12 hours a day for 40 days, in a small room in the early 1990s.
A snake-charmer of the Sapera caste - Tashrih al-aqvam (1825) The Sapera are a Hindu caste found in North India. They are also known as Barwa Sampheriya in West Bengal, Sapela in Punjab and Sparera in Madhya Pradesh. [1] [2] [3] A snake charmer in Delhi