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  • A soldier sending good luck and wishes to his sweetheart through good luck charms. Chromolithograph after E.M.
  • A snake charmer from Poonah, India. Watercolour, 1873.
  • Snake charmer with wife holding the snake. Gouache drawing.
  • Delhi: a snake charmer. Watercolour by an Indian painter.
  • A snake charmer with three snakes and attendant. Gouache drawing.
  • An Indian snake charmer. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A snake charmer. Gouache painting on mica, by an Indian artist.
  • A snake charmer's wife holding a small baby. Gouache painting on mica, by an Indian artist.
  • A snake charmer's wife holding a small baby. Gouache painting on mica, by an Indian artist.
  • An arrangement of different castes including snake charmer, brick-layer, basket-maker, potter and wives. Gouache drawing.
  • A female snake charmer plays the flute to rouse the snake. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A West African witchdoctor with a hat entirely covered with amulets of leather and feathers. The leather is sewn into little pouches, each of which contains verses from the Koran and other charms.
  • An Indian snake charmer squatting down playing his pipe, with two cobras in a basket in front of him, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Six snake charmers displaying their snakes. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Orpheus charming the animals with music. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after A. Hondius.
  • Street scene with snake charmers, Calcutta, West Bengal. Coloured etching by François Balthazar Solvyns, 1799.
  • Indian musical instruments; percussion, string and wind, and a musical score for a snake-charming melody. Coloured etching.
  • Indian musical instruments; percussion, string and wind, and a musical score for a snake-charming melody. Coloured etching.
  • Orpheus sitting on a stone holding a string instrument and charming the animals with music. Engraving by A. de Bruyn.
  • Snake charmer holding an Egyptian cobra (<I>Naja haje</I>), whose venom immobolises its prey by attacking the nervous system. The Brooklyn Museum Papyri from Ancient Egypt includes a book of snakebites which describes all the possible snakes to be found in Egypt with a compendium of treatments. The papyri were translated in 1966-1967 by Serge Sauneron.
  • The displaying of supposed witchcraft. Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors. And divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body...or the like, is utterly denied and disproved. Wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth of apparitions...the force of charms, and philters; with other abstruse matters / By John Webster.
  • Human figure, with hands and feet shackled, its body incorporating a mandala (?). Ink drawing, Tibet, 1850/1910?.
  • Human figure, with hands and feet shackled, its body incorporating a mandala (?). Ink drawing, Tibet, 1850/1910?.
  • The case of artificially manufactured version of a goa stone
  • The case of artificially manufactured version of a goa stone
  • An artificially manufactured version of a goa stone
  • Chinese woodcut: Talisman against epidemic diseases
  • St. Benedict's penny. On one side a representation of the Saint.
  • Machabei cross, protective cross. Both sides shown (Hebrew characters).
  • Suppenbrunnzer, dove of the Holy Spirit.