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==Cultural significance== In ancient [[Mesopotamia]], mongooses were sacred to the deity [[Ninkilim]], who was conflated with [[Ningirama]], a deity of magic who was invoked for protection against serpents. According to a [[Babylonia]]n popular saying, when a mouse fled from a mongoose into a serpent's hole, it announced, "I bring you greetings from the snake-charmer!" A creature resembling a mongoose also appears in Old Babylonian [[glyptic art]], but its significance is not known.<ref name="BlackGreen1992">{{cite book |last1=Black |first1=J. |first2=A. |last2=Green |title=Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary |url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=05LXAAAAMAAJ}} |publisher=The British Museum Press |year=1992 |isbn=0-7141-1705-6 |page=132 }}</ref> All mongoose species, except for ''Suricata suricatta'', are classed as a "prohibited new organism" under New Zealand's [[Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996]], preventing them from being imported into the country.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1996/0030/latest/DLM386556.html#DLM386556 |title=Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 2003 β Schedule 2 Prohibited new organisms |publisher=New Zealand Government |access-date=26 January 2012}}</ref> {{more citations needed|section|date = October 2020}} A well-known fictional mongoose is [[Rikki-Tikki-Tavi]], who appears in a [[short story]] of the same title in ''[[The Jungle Book]]'' (1894) by [[Rudyard Kipling]]. In this tale set in India, a young pet mongoose saves his human family from a [[Common krait|krait]] and from Nag and Nagaina, two [[cobra]]s. The story was later made into several films and a song by [[Donovan]], among other references. A mongoose is also featured in [[Bram Stoker]]'s novel ''[[The Lair of the White Worm]]''. The main character, Adam Salton, purchases one to independently hunt snakes. Another mongoose features in the denouement of the [[Sherlock Holmes]] story "[[The Adventure of the Crooked Man]]", by [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]. The Indian Tamil devotional film ''[[Padai Veetu Amman]]'' shows Tamil actor [[Vinu Chakravarthy]] changing himself into a mongoose by using his evil tantric [[mantra]], to fight the goddess Amman. However, the mongoose finally dies at the hands of the goddess. Mongoose species are prohibited to be kept as pets in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |author=Krueger, A. |date=2010 |url=http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/185181/ |title=Remembering Duluth's famous mongoose, Mr. Magoo |work=[[Duluth News Tribune]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201220233/http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/185181/ |archive-date=1 February 2014 }}</ref>
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