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 4(J THE DTDIAN ASTIQUABT. [Kinniriai. l-*r gexatod version of the Indian snake-charming,, ma of' i ho earliest notices of it. The ring i vgws, it will be nunumbercd, conferred inviflibHiiy; belief* reHptHiting snakes mnuSn HpKital reference to the eyes*, and ut the preset n day. on lho ciiasc ar leaat, sore eyes arc ascribed to I by anger of serpeuta, ami a snake is Uiu worst omen u Brahman can
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i-vliotliRP fchfl no .-nakex bearing i .us Htonea prevail* in Soothers ! I day, but Halm lii'vj Cluuidra Sandcl of BanAnix tell* us knot in Bengal U iitapopu4a| '.;obrn bears a diniuond, M luanifld T that ax that poiniMionw reptile live along He I tin',.- !,:, carbon to a diu ■ ■ I people I v tunes emits lij^lil', which has perhaps led tlietn 1 An in some degree eonm-i-tetl with tHis, I am tempfo I t*> ndd .1 *t range hit of folklore frvuu fchdj tfimtftfl nf •, where ( :i ' 1 1. 1 '" 1 } wu arc told thai! aeoorw ing to Coorg belief, tin* cobra lives a thousand years* After nafltung the meridian of it-. <ttm s body K 11 UU tics like I measures three feet or lean at the age of six or mvbh hun drwl j ,itrr it shines like gold, and 1.1 on I. font in bmgth. At liuti it *1 p, "I 'Uuu some day it flics up high I I loi w called ." is uiurked by a little hIoup i Id any onu unaware *■<■■ jpon 11, he ^attftokr-'l by iiHMjmble ukin diftftUe, and l ta if any one points at the Mcufptural Keqwiit-stoni m 1 ! np under fcn Ip-nr-ved tin jming to the • borne in the hurl, tl Hi I ile to hear thai the p Or bx%k£ iruuis, the eobri everywhere believed to hear on tluur hooda »hn -■.umfm which will adhere t acm« bit** and extrrtet the poison, frotn tin. reptile** head be in no l, venomous. Qtiarnteri will ol front the h«ul of a iinak> in all a hue J. Thceic rtro da r k -coloured and shin i 11 j» r 1 1. |tn c*t efn h 1 • -hian f ar sometimes pinto -mi- transparent, made apparently t-firtttt- dlinjfh or ihlSQ amlier. Though adbert!. a time to bite*, they have no eamtive proiwr- tios, as has been largely u roved by Ciperi- tocaal I;ii NVorld there nro som? remarlcnhlo paralleln to the Indian legend or ' »bl jfrhnjie bo preaaedinlo ihti ftTvi'.-L- ofUboae w bo eeataad 1 bat Uio pi bv oriofta ponnlation were Tuniniaus, who, ^Urtinur from A Asia or frotn India, reached even Ami": '• anknowa ep> -h. ■ -t jterpent-werribippinu' m09j mid ftrrt dffi- eovereiT? of gome nnd metatH, cvriginaled ike q variety of stnriraand mp ■ that always in KUU precious 1 tietnlii ami p ret" 88i The Ainer- ican Inilian triliex reverence the rattlei'.nake, i.iifl full' ri Tii.u :-riini» where in the intmi there ill D lOOrei valk-y inhabited by the chiefw of the rattlesnake bribe, which tfrow to the hikp of kirgc trees, and bear on their forer.- liant gnma that Rhine with dnr/l lour- i.lv 'Culled Ul« ; '--U.L"-.' "tin b old inliulntnntrt,' — nppcllatiunn evil' i be Ruao eenao a,-. 1 itaalway* raokan of llavaffbiotd Sa)t£betti bail ai "the, and nifty be eonsultod if pi Honglit." At thu present day an animal e:i I Imi the ^DnoalowpopolorJ^bttninn iPerni peora only at ti I when pozanad, u •r opens irebead, and an extniordiiiarily brill; id by the wi lives to lie a prneionii nlnne, lmoon.-) lling ib*> 1 to be 1 h* lo warrant I n Llui txi of an animal pome* remarkable < pin lity wbii:h Kervea as a prel'-vr ! llio adjaecml iulanda andenst*, fa I no are Ihbruntvd by Jewn and eaid lo bora boon tnk,en "»i of the head of the 1. So inroad and thia ancient belief, 1 roenifl to Jla' 1 oatod' iti Tr.iiui. Ii appcam in Kntrliuid rw ruoaitnw, • i- I .,.!.' • Adair*! llto»f'j ttftht ,<•« n.Mn ind,, U» lubjwt— p. 387,
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