Few haven’t heard of the mysterious snake charmer of Southeast Asia, visiting villages from every stretch of land, playing his flute for all to see. Most famous of all were the snakes he used in his act, manipulating them with the tunes of his song so they would heed his bidding.

You were luckily enough to stumble across his act, quite literally. The white-haired man sat cross-legged on a stretch of cloth, holding a flute to his lips. The head of a snake tentatively poked out from a clay jar.