It is typical to see in some oriental markets a man who plays a flute, making a cobra come out of a basket and move as if he were dancing. Actually, the snake charmer is not hypnotizing the reptile . One of the characteristics of snakes is that they are completely deaf to the sounds transmitted by the air, so it is not true that they are calmed by the music of the flute, but by the movement that the enchanter confers on the instrument.
What the musician does to make us believe that the cobra dances is to move the flute slowly from one side to the other . In this way, the snake follows this movement with its head, apparently hypnotized. Actually, this is how she best observes the path made by the object that can be potentially dangerous for her.
