snake charmer

an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.

Origin of snake charmer

First recorded in 1830–40

Isaacs plays the snake-charmer of a neighbor Roman Castavet in the miniseries.

‘Rosemary’s Baby’: How NBC Gave Birth to a New Version of Roman Polanski’s Horror Classic |Kevin Fallon |May 9, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
All the snake-charmer asks is to know the place and to have been there recently, and you shall have your snake without fail.

Beast and Man in India |John Lockwood Kipling
But to a stranger the snake-charmer himself is a better tamasha than anything he can show.

Concerning Animals and Other Matters |E.H. Aitken, (AKA Edward Hamilton)
Believe me, your gudgeon nibbled because I sang him to the surface--just as the snakes come out for the song of the snake-charmer.

In the Days of My Youth |Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards

To Mimi, born and bred in Siam, the sound was strangely like an exaggeration of the sound produced by a snake-charmer.

The Lair of the White Worm |Bram Stoker
"There is a picture of a snake-charmer in this," he exclaimed.

The Secret Garden |Frances Hodgson Burnett

snake charmer

an entertainer, esp in Asia, who charms or appears to charm snakes by playing music and by rhythmic body movements