protection from the bandits. When Deon tells his father Jacobus (Bruce Phillips), his uncle Karis, and a crowd of villagers that he was able to escape death simply by commanding his attackers to leave him alone, his story elicits jeers and laughter. Angered by the villagers' taunts, Deon commands one of the men to dance like a chicken and, to everyone's amazement, the man obeys. Soon another spectator, who turns out to be Salmoneus (Robert Trebor), emerges from the crowd, also dancing like a chicken. When Hercules breaks the spell by shaking him, Salmoneus explains he has been summoned to the village by the Titus
