The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 87W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1876 |
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Page 97
... cobra poison may be chargeable to cobra worship , can only be decided by a far more mi- nute examination into statistics than that by which we are broadly told " 20,000 persons die annually from snake - bite in India . " Serpent worship ...
... cobra poison may be chargeable to cobra worship , can only be decided by a far more mi- nute examination into statistics than that by which we are broadly told " 20,000 persons die annually from snake - bite in India . " Serpent worship ...
Page 98
... cobra , with his erect posture and , inflated neck . " There are , " says Dr. Fayrer , " few objects more calculated to in- spire awe than a large cobra , when with hood erect , his eyes glaring , and hissing loudly , he prepares to ...
... cobra , with his erect posture and , inflated neck . " There are , " says Dr. Fayrer , " few objects more calculated to in- spire awe than a large cobra , when with hood erect , his eyes glaring , and hissing loudly , he prepares to ...
Page 99
... cobra whose folds are wreathed around his arm ; and many similar monuments throughout the oriental nations tell us of the place which the serpent held in their theology . Though , perhaps , nowhere do we find the remnants of serpent wor ...
... cobra whose folds are wreathed around his arm ; and many similar monuments throughout the oriental nations tell us of the place which the serpent held in their theology . Though , perhaps , nowhere do we find the remnants of serpent wor ...
Page 100
... cobra in their houses - as is not unfrequently the case , for this reptile will remain in a hole or crevice of the wall for years they will conciliate it , feed and protect it , as though to injure it were to invoke misfortune on the ...
... cobra in their houses - as is not unfrequently the case , for this reptile will remain in a hole or crevice of the wall for years they will conciliate it , feed and protect it , as though to injure it were to invoke misfortune on the ...
Page 102
... cobra of India : " The wiry set of naked savages from the hills press a stick neatly on its neck and a toe on the end of its tail , and the snake is quite at their mercy . " And it must be confessed that the Indian . jugglers do ...
... cobra of India : " The wiry set of naked savages from the hills press a stick neatly on its neck and a toe on the end of its tail , and the snake is quite at their mercy . " And it must be confessed that the Indian . jugglers do ...
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