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  2. Snake charming - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Pungi - Wikipedia

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    It is in particular played by snake charmers, mostly in the Terai and Nepal, to arouse snakes to dance. [12] The instrument has a high, thin tone and continuous low humming. [13] It has been an important instrument in Indian folk culture and is known by various names in different parts of India.

  4. Kalbelia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. India snake charmers struggle to save dying tradition - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Centuries old cobra snake charming should be boycotted for ...

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    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.

  7. Indian cobra - Wikipedia

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    The cobra is deaf to the snake charmer's pipe, but follows the visual cue of the moving pipe and it can sense the ground vibrations from the snake charmer's tapping. Sometimes, for the sake of safety, the cobra will either be venomoid or the venom will have been milked prior to the snake charmer's act. The snake charmer may then sell this venom ...

  8. 40 Facts About Animals That Might Make You Look Like The ...

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    In fact, snake experts say it’s quite docile to handle, so they can just go ahead and do that, then. If you do get bit by an inland taipan, though, you’re probably going to be in trouble.

  9. Snake - Wikipedia

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    In some parts of the world, especially in India, snake charming is a roadside show performed by a charmer. In such a show, the snake charmer carries a basket containing a snake that he seemingly charms by playing tunes with his flutelike musical instrument, to which the snake responds. [131] The snake is in fact responding to the movement of ...