A public entertainer who exhibits his professed ability to charm or fascinate venomous snakes (Webster's).
"The use of the Pamboo-Kaloo, or snake-stone, as a remedy in cases of wounds by venomous serpents, has probably been communicated to the Singhalese by the itinerant snake-charmers who resort to the island from the Coast of Coromandel; and more than one well-authenticated instance of its successful application has been told to me by persons who had been eye-witnesses."
Sir James Emerson Tennent, Ceylon (1860).
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