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Members of the Sapera or Sapuakela castes, snake charmers have little other choice of profession. In fact, entire settlements of snake charmers and their families exist in some parts of India and neighbouring countries. [citation needed] In Bangladesh, snake charmers are typically members of the nomadic ethnic group Bede. They tend to live by ...
In Punjab, the word Sapela is derived from the word sap, which means snake in Punjabi. They are also known as Nath. The community are as much snake catchers as snake charmers, and are employed by villagers as snake charmers. According to their traditions, the community descend from a Kanipa, a Jhinwar, who took to snake
Their traditional occupation is catching snakes and trading snake venom. They rear snakes, dogs, hens, horses, donkeys, pigs and goats. They rear snakes, dogs, hens, horses, donkeys, pigs and goats. Hence, the dance movements and the costumes of their community bear a resemblance to those of the serpents.
Indonesian snake charmer Ice Habibi plays with wild king cobras at his rural home in Riau province, Indonesia. Bare-chested Ice, aged 27, is seen handling two giant king cobras with his hands in ...
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.
Nala Damajanti was the stage name of a late 19th-century snake charmer who toured with P.T. Barnum's circus and performed at the famed Folies Bergère in Paris. French sources identify her as Emilie Poupon (1861–1944), born in Nantey, Jura Department, France.
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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 ...