An 11-year-old Indian girl considers
venomous snakes her best friends and despite having been bitten several
times, she continues to sleep and eat with them.
“I
have a lot of fun with the cobras. It hurts when they bite me, but
sometimes it’s my own fault because I tease them. It’s quite funny.”
The
girl’s father has worked as snake catcher for 45 years, and his both
children are already in the family business: 31-year-old son Gulab and
now Kajol. Bitten several times, Kajol had gone though tough recovery
periods: “It hurts when they bite me but they don’t mean it,’ she said. I
get a little frightened when I see the blood but my father sorts me
out. He rushes into the forest and comes back with the medicine.”
The
antidote is received from a wild plant which remains top secret. The
substance also mixed with butter and black pepper should be applied to
the wound quickly to save the person’s life.
While
the girl’s father is glad to pass the family knowledge, Kajol’s mother
wants her to come back to school, from where she was expelled for taking
her pets to class. The worried woman said: “She now refuses to study
and will play with the snakes all day.
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