Monday 19 May 2008

A Priest Of Snake Temple vs Cobra

королевская кобра

It's an incredible notice written by ExpressIndia.com:
A poisonous white cobra bit a prist of Nag Devta from a local "nag" temple ( Barhabaghar near Hansdadih in Dumka district).
The poor unfortunate... snake vomited the blood and died after it.
The man, 35, was transported in the hospital, but felt good and did not lose the consciousnes.
They say, similar case could happen it the person is addicted to drugs. But all the people of the village say, the priest is not so.

Hindu believe that a person will not survive if the snake dies or is killed after it bites a person. But the priest survived. It's the Lord Shiva that saved him, say all the villagers.
According to estimates cited by the World Health Organization, serpent attacks kill as many as 50,000 Indians each year.

Samir Chatterjee, a school headmaster here, says that according to his census, more than 3,000 cobras live just in Choto Pashla, one of the three hamlets that abut Mushari. “Whenever I lie down in my bed, a cobra will just slide on top of me, without hurting me,” boasts Narottom Sain, a Mushari village leader.

“We sleep with the snakes, we eat with the snakes, we live with the snakes here,” shouted 14-year-old Chinmoy Mahji proudly. “We are not scared.”
These quaters I found in "Super Hindus"

...Профессия - ЗАКЛИНАТЕЛЬ

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

what is interesting, and not surprising, is that 90% of snake bite victims are unfortunately too far from a hospital and die.

i had no idea that the snake ever died. amazing...

Liudmila said...

Well, the snakes prefere to live far from the hospitals, I can decide using deductive method of Sherlok Holmes...

JB's Big and Small Worlds said...

That snake scares me but they are still a wodnerful animal in the world.
--JB

Liudmila said...

...mmm...woooonderfuuulll... Got sei dank, ours are sleeping else this year.

footiam said...

I have seen this in India, even in Malaysia. Don't like it!

Liudmila said...

I don't like snakes too. We have 3 or 4 species here, only one poisanous.

The wish to dominate them comes from the great fair and the necessity to live with them, I think.

Anonymous said...

we just made plans to go hiking again in bend, oregon, a beautiful high desert location. at about 8,000 feet the rattlesnakes are sleeping everywhere and you have to be careful where you walk. we like that they have a very big rattle.

Liudmila said...

And I have not seen one snake here near the hause this year else. Is it possible that they sleep till june? Maybe they feel cold?

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