snake-charmers
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Snake charming — is the practice of apparently hypnotising a snake by simply playing an instrument. A typical performance may also include handling the snakes or performing other seemingly dangerous acts, as well as other street performance staples, like juggling … Wikipedia
snake charmer — snake charmers also snake charmers N COUNT A snake charmer is a person who entertains people by controlling the behaviour of a snake, for example by playing music and causing the snake to rise out of a basket and drop back in again … English dictionary
Snake — Ophidian redirects here. For the professional wrestler, see The Osirian Portal. This article is about the animal. For other uses, see Snake (disambiguation). Snakes Temporal range: Early Cretaceous – Recent, 112–0 Ma … Wikipedia
Snake Goddess — Minoan Snake Goddess figurines c 1600 BCE. The snake goddess has … Wikipedia
snake charmer — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms snake charmer : singular snake charmer plural snake charmers someone who can control a snake s behaviour by playing a musical instrument … English dictionary
SNAKE — (Heb. נָחָשׁ, naḥash), a generic name for various species of snake, poisonous and harmless. Both in the Bible and generally in rabbinical literature it is mentioned with ignominy as harmful. It already appears at the dawn of history in the Bible… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Sand snake — Sand Sand, n. [AS. sand; akin to D. zand, G. sand, OHG. sant, Icel. sandr, Dan. & Sw. sand, Gr. ?.] 1. Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Indian Cobra — Naja naja with hood spread open Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia … Wikipedia
Marathi people — Marathis/Maharashtrians (मराठी माणसं/महाराष्ट्रीय) … Wikipedia
South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… … Universalium
