Chapter IX: Serpent-Charming

Revulsion Inspired by the Serpent -- Persons Professing Immunity against
Venomous Serpents -- Scriptural Allusions -- The Ancient Psylli and
Marsi -- Babylonian Magician -- Atyr -- Immunity Distinct from
Serpent-charming -- Hexagon the Ambassador -- Posterity of Psylli in
Sennaar -- Bruce's Curious Account -- Various Plants Antidotic to
Serpent-venom -- Experiments on _Simaba Cedron_ -- Peruvian Serpents and
Remedies -- Various South American Antidotes -- Vejuco of Venezuela --
Grass of Dahomey -- Immunity of Mangouste -- Anecdotes -- Of Hedgehog --
Bruce's Account of the Cerastes -- Hasselquist's Observations -- Psyllic
Woman -- Power of Spittle -- Influence of Music on Serpents --
Proceedings of Egyptian Charmers -- Rattlesnake Charmed by a Flute --
Cobra of India Attracted by Music -- Occasional Failures and Fatalities
-- Anecdotes -- Comments -- Psylli in London -- Are the Poison-fangs
Extracted? -- Power of Snake-stones -- Napier's and Tennent's Accounts
-- Faraday's Analysis -- Plant-remedies, 263