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Snake charmer in Jaipur (India) in 2007 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 ...
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] It is also a double-reed instrument. [10] The pungi is played by Jogi in the Thar desert. [11]
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Snake charmers with their cobras in a wicker basket are a common sight in many parts of India only during the Nag Panchami or Naagula Chavithi festival. 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 ...
Renée Bernard was born in Bordeaux, France, in 1913. [1] [2] She was five feet tall and of French Indochina ancestry.[5] [6] However, her promotional materials claimed that Koringa was born in Rajisthan, India, having been orphaned at the age of three and raised by fakirs who had taught her their skills.
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Snake Charmers in Kolkata, 1945, Norman Herfort, from vintage film negative, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 076/Item 013; Width: 7,039 px: Height: 5,333 px: Pixel composition: Black and white (Black is 0) Orientation: Normal: Number of components: 4: Horizontal resolution: 1 dpi: Vertical resolution: 1 dpi: Software used: Adobe ...