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Performers of this activity steal money from a girl’s fishbowl before she loses it in a storm grate in Jafar Panahi’s film The White Balloon. Gabal learns this activity from his father-in-law and uses it to strike a deal with the gangsters in The Children of Gebelawi. This activity provides an alternate title for a Sol Bloom song often called “The Poor Little Country Maid.” A woman modeled (-5[1])on the artist’s lover Jadwiga watches a man (-5[1])do this activity (10[1])in The Dream (10[1])by Henri Rousseau, who titled a 1907 painting (-5[1])for a performer of it. This (-5[1])activity (10[1])often (10[1])involves an item (10[1])called a pungi (“POON-ghee”). The cover of Edward Said’s Orientalism (10[1])shows (10[1])Jean-Léon (10[2])Gérôme’s painting of this activity, (10[1])which does not actually induce hypnosis. (10[2])For 10 points, what activity (10[1])involves playing an instrument to draw (10[1])a reptile out of a basket? ■END■ (10[1])

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