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Title: Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Figuier, Louis, 1819-1894 Gillmore, Parker
Subjects: Reptiles Birds
Publisher: London : Cassell & Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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1. —Snake Uliarmers. SNAKE CHARMERS. 69 fields. It is the serpent chiefly used by snake-charmers, terribly fatalas its bite is known to be. The action of the snake-charmer is as follows : he takes in hishand a root, the virtue of which is supposed to preserve him from thevenomous effects of the bite of the Cobra. Drawing the reptile from
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Fig. 17.—Cobra di Capella. the cage in which he keeps it confined, he irritates it by presenting astick to it; the animal immediately erects the fore part of its body,swells its neck, opens its jaws, extends its forked tongue, its eyes glitter,and it begins to hiss. Then a sort of battle commences betweenthe serpent and the charmer; the latter, striking up a monotonoussort of song, opposes his closed fist to his enemy, sometimes usinghis right hand and sometimes his left (Plate I.) The animal fixesits eyes upon the list which threatens it,, follows all its movements, 70 REPTILES AND BIRDS. balances its head and body, and thus simulates a kind of dance.Other charmers induce the Cobra to make a variety of movementsof the neck and head by playing upon a whistle or flute. It issaid that these mysterious jugglers are able, by some sympatheticaction they possess, to plunge these dangerous enemies into a sort oflethargy and death-like rigidity, and to bring them at will out of thismomentar

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  • bookauthor:Gillmore__Parker
  • booksubject:Reptiles
  • booksubject:Birds
  • bookpublisher:London___Cassell___Co_
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