Please Pass the Snakes
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No wonder the snake is charmed. Raising his head, lest he be crushed under the hooves of a thousand horses.
Above is a picture of about a 100 snake-charmers playing 'Amazing Grace' on their gourds. They also played 'Auld Lang Syne' that Hawa Singh, their leader, said they had picked up while playing with the bag-pipers in Scotland during a Festival of India.
There used to be a time when India was known as the Land of Snake-charmers and the Great Indian Rope Trick was a metaphor of all sorts of woozy Indianisms that surpassed western logic and understanding.
Now we have a snake-charmers' wind symphony that plays Amazing Grace.
Seriously, they played "Amazing Grace"??
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ReplyDeleteYup they did. And it was amazing!!
ReplyDeleteEr actually I am an alchemist... but they didn't have that option :)
Interesting to me. I have always been intrigued by snake charmers and the rope trick. I can remember as a child watching old Abbott and Costello movies with charmers. It was funny but intriguing to my mind. I would dream about it weeks later.
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