What would you do if you got up at home at night and went to the bathroom in the middle of the night and suddenly found a cobra in the wall staring straight at you? Don't think it's a myth, no, the Indian guy Abak caught up with it.
Strange noises in the walls
Abak was an ordinary young man in India, and like the north drift of our country, he also worked odd jobs in Mumbai, India to make a living, and although his life was not rich, it was safe. However, since he moved into the Dharavi slum in Mumbai half a year ago, his peaceful life has been shattered.
India's slums are all made of adobe houses, which can be said to be everywhere in the countryside of the 60s and 70s on the mainland. However, with the construction of new rural areas, the earthen houses in the countryside have long been replaced by small Western-style buildings, and in India, where the economic development is relatively backward, this simple building is still retained.
Although the house is broken, it is a good villain, after all, it can shelter the wind and rain, and the area is not small, which can shield Abak from the wind and rain. When Abak moved in, it was autumn in India, and it was raining continuously, and it rained for half a month. Although the earthen house does not rain heavily outside the house and the house rains lightly, it will still become extremely wet due to the continuous rainfall, and even some places on the wall have leaked.
The humid environment is not a problem in Abak's view, after all, in this part of India, this climate is here.
However, one day, when Abak, who had been tired for a long time, fell asleep, he could always hear a slight "hissing" sound coming from the room. At first, he thought he was too tired at work, but he actually had auditory hallucinations, but he didn't expect that for several days, this strange noise came from the room. And not only at night, but also in the daytime at home can also be heard.
Will there be a mess at home? There were rat holes in the rats, so Abak carefully searched the corners and corners of the house, not even the dark corners, and found nothing. This is strange, is the family really haunted? Abak felt that this problem could not be solved by one person, and it seemed that he had to find a higher person to solve it.
To this end, he came to the city's famous downtown restaurant to inquire about the news, which is a place where migrant workers often gather together. When the friends heard about Abaq's encounter, they all felt very strange, and they couldn't say why for a while. However, an old man pointed out from the side: Recently, it has been a rainy season, the house is damp, and there are often snakes. Boy, go home and see if there is a snake in the house.
A sentence to wake up the dreamer, ah, the more Abak thought about it, the more he felt that the old man said something reasonable. So when I went to bed at night, I took a flashlight and waited on the bed to wait for the rabbit. Sure enough, in the middle of the night, there was another hissing sound on the wall opposite the bed, and this time it was louder than the previous times. Abak quickly opened the mobile phone to check, this does not matter, a look scared Abak is scattered ah!
A black cobra spat at him! Abak was so frightened that he almost flew the flashlight out, quickly grabbed his things and ran out of the house, never daring to go back.
No wonder Abak was so frightened that the Indian cobra was the first of the four poisonous snakes in India. Although it is not very painful to bite, its venom is a strong neurotoxin that can hinder the connection between the organ and the nervous system, leading to muscle paralysis, respiratory failure, and even the heart stopping beating. Only 0.67 mg of venom is needed to kill an animal weighing 1 kg. Once a person is bitten, if he does not get timely treatment, as little as 6 hours, as much as half a day, he may die.
When Abak saw that there was really a snake in the house, he immediately went to the old man before him and wanted to ask what to do? Due to the widespread belief in Hinduism, in Hinduism, the cobra is called "Naga" and is worshipped as a god.
When the old man heard what happened to Abak, he said, "You have a "godly spirit" in your home! You are a "man guarded by a snake", and soon rumors spread in the village, and Abak became a celebrity.
Abakh said in his heart: What god is obviously spirit? If I really want to be bitten by this thing, even the snake god can't save me. After all, Abak had worked in the city, and he knew that it was useless to rely on superstition, so we had to find a local snake catcher to see.
After the snake catching expert entered the house, he did not rush to catch the snake, but first made a careful observation of the environment of the house. He noticed that the walls of Abak's home were damp, and this wet environment was what cobras liked the most. Then he found that there were many small holes in the wall, and these small holes were the passages used by cobras to breathe and crawl.
Then, the snake catcher used a flashlight to illuminate these small holes, trying to learn more about the situation inside. He followed the direction of these small holes, followed the vines and touched the melon, tapping along the line with the snake-catching claws, and groping for the location of the cobra. With the continuous beating, there was soon an echo. It seems that the snake is in this wall, and it is too dangerous for a person to come, and the snake catching expert quickly summons a companion and digs with a sheep pickaxe!
There is a nest of cobras in the earthen wall
Abak watched from the sidelines anxiously and helplessly. What is anxious is that I asked you to help me catch snakes, and you are good to dig me directly into the corner! Helplessly, if you don't do this, you won't be able to find a cobra, and you will still suffer in the future. There was no other way but to wait. Not to mention, experts are experts, and several people dig up a large piece of it in three strokes and five divisions. As the wall dug deeper and deeper, when a large piece of dirt was dug down, the cobra hidden inside the wall was seen, and everyone immediately raised twelve points of alarm.
The snake catcher signaled the others to back off, he first confirmed the snake's posture with a flashlight, then quickly picked up the snake claws, clicked and clamped the snake's body, pulled it out at once, and then stepped forward and grabbed the tail of the snake. This time the cobra can't get out.
Although the body was controlled, the snake's head was still inside, and it still had to face the cobra's poisonous fangs. Therefore, at this time, it is absolutely impossible to pull the tail of the snake violently, and once the snake is provoked, the consequences are unimaginable. The expert constantly beat the snake's body with the snake-catching tongs, causing the snake to exit the hole little by little, at the moment when the snake's head spit out the letter. The expert stepped forward and clamped the snake's head with the snake-catching tongs and put it into the sack casually.
The cobra was controlled, and the hanging hearts of the crowd could finally be put down. After measurement, the snake is about 1.5 meters long. Everyone said that Abak was in the same room with the cobra, unharmed, and it was really fatal! They congratulated him, but the snake catching experts still had a serious face. This snake has been caught, why are the experts not happy? While constantly shining a flashlight on the wall, the expert said to everyone: According to my many years of experience in catching snakes, I guess there may be more than one snake in this wall. Let's, don't sit idle, keep digging!
The hearts that the crowd had originally put down suddenly rose again, and had to continue digging according to the instructions of the experts. As a large pile of soil fell, another snake head appeared in front of everyone's eyes, perhaps by the sudden glare, and the snake looked a little sluggish. The snake catcher skillfully put the snake into the sack and put the somewhat confused snake into the sack.
In this way, while digging, experts caught while investigating, and finally caught 5 cobras. Abak was already stunned. Those who helped next to them, watched the hilarity, and were all surprised and unable to speak, they did not expect that these incredible things would actually happen to their side. It was not until the experts carefully inspected the house and determined that there were no snakes in the wall that everyone gradually came back to their senses.
Abak was undoubtedly lucky that he spent more than half a year with five cobras unharmed. But not everyone has the same luck as Abaq. In India, the damage of venomous snakes is even higher than the widespread COVID-19 epidemic. According to statistics, in the past 20 years, a total of 1.2 million people have died from being bitten by poisonous snakes. A quarter of them are children.
Not only in India, but also in 5.4 million snake bites worldwide each year, poisoning at least 1.8 million to 2.7 million people, killing 81,000 to 138,000 people, and many surviving but suffering permanent physical disabilities. This figure is also highly valued by the World Health Organization, which has warned that the problem of being attacked by poisonous snakes and causing complications has become one of the most neglected tropical diseases.
Many people may see here and say: This is India after all, we basically live in the city, and the probability of encountering snakes at home is too small. You may be very wrong, on the mainland, the number of people bitten by poisonous snakes every year is also between 200,000 and 400,000, killing tens of thousands of people. Prevention is in the future, and the precautions that everyone should learn must still be learned, especially friends who live in the south, they should pay more attention.
What should I do if the "snake haunts" the house?
First of all, to avoid snakes in the home environment, it is necessary to do regular maintenance and cleaning work. For example, regularly removing weeds and garbage waste outside the house can not only drive away snakes, but also reduce the breeding of rats. Especially with the growth of domestic economic conditions, many people have money in their pockets and have begun to choose country houses to settle down, so they must pay more attention to the surrounding ecological environment.
If a snake accidentally breaks in at home, don't be nervous, and don't take the initiative. Because in fact, snakes are more afraid than you. If you take the plunge, you are likely to provoke the snake and turn around and bite you. So don't panic when you encounter a snake, just do these four steps.
The first step, to stay calm, the snake can feel the subtle changes in the air through the spitting out of the letter. Therefore, it is necessary to move gently, do not casually tease the snake, so as not to stimulate the snake to attack, and to achieve "the enemy does not move and I do not move."
The second step is to evacuate the elderly and children in the home, as well as pets, and maintain a safe distance of more than one meter from the snake. The third step, to be good at using the tools in the home, you can use brooms, dustpans and other attacks to move the snake into a bucket with a lid, or you can move the snake to the indoor corner.
Finally, if you are really not sure, it is more reliable to call for help, and with the help of the police and related animal experts, help the snake return to nature.