Millard County Chronicle | 1912-07-25 | Page 1 | Snake Charmers of Old

SNAKE CHARMERS OF OLD Homer and Virgil Mention Them and ' Ancient Tablets Show tho 1 Tamed Serpents. ' Snake taming la mentioned by Vlr- III, and Homer refers to the snake ' wned and specially favored by AJax. rhat tbo Macedonians were on lot!- 1 mate terms with reptiles Is shown by ablets bearing Images of women fd-ng fd-ng aerpenta. Other tablets show ser-lenta ser-lenta talnlng around columns In the eroplo of Hercules, where tb.y were 1 jlaeed by people In token of gratitude o tho god. c Tbo chariots of Minerva and Co- fc e wero drawn by snakes and snakes I1 warded tho altars of msuv. of tbo ' oda. On a fragment of a iv.a.pellsn n reseo a Berpent Is depleted colled D it a tree on a stretcher borne by two laves. a Tbo guardian serpent w.i the guod xlry of tho antique home ni tho b atchful guard of the lastly boaor. " :ven at the present time ine Mexl- ,( n peasants flock to CocuU from all io country round about to keep the " ?aat day of St. iJomlnlc, the tslnt ho bl inferred on man the powc. - ta.-no rpents. On K Iminh s day snake- 1,1 sarmers appear In Cocula bearing ad- th ir and other rept..s. In Umbrla r io snako Is aupposei to poisest the rc wer of working tnlrarlea Harneri cr eekiy. M