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  • Three mother-goddesses or fates (above); three mandrake charms (below). Engraving.
  • An indian snake charmer charming a cobra held by his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Seduced by India? Absorbed by its charm? Blinded by its beauty? Remember the India beyond the image : Many people living in the UK have been infected while travelling abroad to the Indian subcontinent. Don't take unnecessary risks. India has one of the highest rates of HIV infection worldwide. To prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV; remember always use a condom / Brent & Harrow fund this initiative ; this poster was jointly produced by Asian Women's Resource Centre and The Naz Project London.
  • A Dayak shaman or medicine man holding a flaming torch and some charms. Wood engraving.
  • A postcard illustrating a young couple surrounded by a variety of good luck charms. Process print.
  • Snake charmer and family. Gouache drawing.
  • 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.
  • A fashionable lady being given an enema by a charming young man. Line engraving by Dicuelt, 18--.
  • A fashionable lady being given an enema by a charming young man. Line engraving by Dicuelt, 18--.
  • 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?.