The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-06-16
SNAKE CHARMING.
BARoDA DEMON SNAKE MAN CoNJUREs a
COBRA OUT OF BOYS HEAD.

y a correspondent who is making o
Setching tour through some of the
tates Of Northwest India.
One morning I was strolling with q
;iend III the yeranda when we saw a
srange figure coming along the drive; q
| tiiish man, in scarlet turban-only,
mike the. usual solid turban, it was
puud serpentwise about his head a kind
loose, flame coIored shirt; a loin-cloth,
ad the ordinary peaked shoe of the
| hsterns. Across his shoulders he car
red q stout bamboo pole between five
ad SIX feet long, at either end of which
hing two bags of coarse woven cloth,
ctlored a. less vivid hame-color. AS he
cme up to us We saw he had long black
hlr, twisted up like woman's, and Sc
cred at the left side by heavy silver
csn1b whose back was chased in strange
ptterns and shaped like a curve in q
sake's body. In his ears were delicate
efrlngs of silver, set with small green
and red and white stones in fower-l lik g
| shpes; on his forehead was the red mark
ofthe Hindoo; across the bridge of the
nGe, between the eyes, there was black
AMI scarlet line drawn that looked like a
file silk ribbon, and similar ribbon ran
fnm the outer corner of each eye to the
temple. His face gave you the impress
! sjn of his having been alive since the
fOd; his eyes looked as if they could
| noi shut; yet he had not wrinkle, and
wal evidently young. His hands were
beautifully shaped, with delicate nails;
his feet were strong and shapeIy too.
Iy friend said: "This man will show
you some fun for few coppers." So he
was had up on to the veranda, and the
play began. He opened his bags, sat
down on his launches, and proceeded to
unpack. The bags contained each a large
wicker or rather bamboo lath basket, and
nonlescript bundles of many colored
cloth. The latter contained tin box
full of live and lively scorpions, some
necklaces OF strange gray and red stone,
pieces of wood supposed to be cures for
scorpion bites, round black substances
like small shining buttons-these are
snake stones, and If laid on a cobra bite
are supposed to cure it.
The baskets contained also a large
cobm apiece. He took out the two
cobTas and laid them on the stone floor
yssa1ue veranda. I an not. aR5b; Tor ne
has been here many times since. At any
rate, he took a cobra out, let it squirm
about on the floor; then he produced
from his bag weird pipe, made of a
gourd and shaped something like bag
pipe. The lower part, below the belly,
is pierced with holes ou which the fingers
play. With this pipe he began the most
goblin rant that ever was heard; the
cobra ceased writhing about and gradu-
ally raised itself on its coils, swelled out
its hood and slowly waved its awful head
to and fro in front OF the music, as if it
saw the music. Suddenly the music
made wild, leaping yell and "was not p
the cobra's head sank down and his hood
shrunk into nothing.
The demon snake man then remarked,
pointing to big boy, a servant of my
friend, II will bring a cobra out of that
boys cap" The boy had on a close-it-
ting pork-pie cap, his head was shaved
and the rest of his clothing consisted of
shirt. The man then took his pipe and
began to walk around the boy; then on a
sudden the air was rent by melody such
as might soothe the damned; it whirled
around the boy like visible thing, but
the boy stood firm. Suddenly again the
music stopped, and the man began to
take off his drapery. He appeared for 8
moment au naturel, and there wasn't the
ghost Of snake about him. He shook
out all his clothes-no snake. He wrap
ped his loin cloth around him, and be
| gan his devils dance and his soul-killina
pipe.
Not once from first to last did he ap-
| prOach his baskets or the cobra which
lay sleeping in the sun. He came up tc
whele l sat, and took a small paint rag
of mine; he put it on the boys head, ,and
then shook it out and gave it back to me
| q told you the boys cap fitted tight IL
his head, and his head was shaved). Oh
went the whirl and yell, and, as before
stopped suddenly with heavenascend-
ing shrek. He stepped up to the boy
and with his naked hand plucked out
where from2-a great cobra, which h
flung straight at me. The brute strucI
me on the shoulder, and went shudder-
ing down my leg where it subsided OF
the ground kissing heavily. L sat still
aud laughed. He laid the new cobra by
the old one, put both in the basket
/ opened up all his cloths and baskets anl
things-there were two cobra now, ant
no more. Then he took my paint rag
laid It down against pillar on the yeran-
da, and went through the same music
When the music was exhausted he walk
ed to the rug and plucked out a thirC
cobra, which also greeted me in friendl,
wise, There were three now; we saw
them all, but my friend said: "Thi
won't do; he'll fill the place with snakes.
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