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Magical India, magical things can always happen. In India, both the serpent and The Lord Shiva are highly regarded, and it is widely believed that The God Shiva is the god of the snake. Recently, an Indian woman in India used a poisonous snake as a "Shiva avatar", but it turned out that the poisonous snake bit her to death.
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According to Russian media reports, the woman who was bitten to death was named Runiya Devi, from the Indian state of Charkhent. She was about to go to a religious event about Shiva, and before she set out she encountered a poisonous snake, and since Hinduism regarded Lord Shiva as a snake god, Luniya Devi thought that the snake was the "incarnation of Shiva", or a "messenger" sent by Lord Shiva, so she wrapped the snake around her neck and went to the ceremony as usual. In the process, the venomous snake tore at her body several times, but she did not react, and soon the poison attacked, and Lunia Devi lost consciousness and eventually lost her life.
It is currently the month of Hinduism entering "Shravan", and Hindu believers like to pray to Shiva for blessings, and women also like to pay homage to snakes. In the eyes of the Hindus, Lord Shiva can bless them with fulfilling all their wishes. Recently, 100,000 Hindu believers in Uttar Pradesh, India, have poured into the Ganges River, where they have gathered to bathe and pray despite the epidemic. Moreover, many people at the scene did not wear masks and did not do a good job of social isolation, believing that with the protection of Lord Shiva, they would not be threatened by the new crown pneumonia virus.
(Ganges Carnival)
Of course, from the current actual situation, the epidemic situation in India is not optimistic. Similarly, the Snake of India is a major danger, and Luniya Devi is just one of the large number of Indians who have been bitten by snakes. WHO statistics show that in the past 20 years or so, the number of people killed by snake bites in India is close to 1.2 million, which is equivalent to tens of thousands of people being bitten by snakes in India every year, which is a shocking data. Moreover, this is only a count of the people who have been bitten, and the number of people bitten may be higher.
(Snake Trickster in India)
Of course, it is not only snakes that bite people, but also people who bite snakes in India. Recently, in the Indian state of Bihar, a 65-year-old drunk man was bitten by a snake, and not only did he not run away, but he also angrily bit the snake, and the two sides exchanged more than a dozen bites. Because the drunk man thought the young snake was not a big problem, he refused to let his family take him to the hospital, and the next day he was found dead. Something similar happened in 2019, when an Indian farmer was bitten by a snake in his field, he immediately bit back, and eventually he died of a highly toxic attack.
(Indian man caught biting a snake)
So are there any Indians who have won the battle between humans and snakes? Also, in the Indian state of Odisha, a 45-year-old man was bitten in the leg by a highly poisonous golden ring snake, and he angrily grabbed the snake and bit it to death, and miraculously, the man is still alive. Last year, a 38-year-old Indian man saw a snake on his way home from buying wine, and he grabbed the snake by the neck and bit the snake while drinking. It turned out that he was not bitten by a snake, because it was a non-venomous mouse snake. However, this does not mean that he is okay, and the Indian forest department took note of the incident and arrested the man.
Perhaps you will feel that India does not pay attention to the problem of snake infestation, in fact, India has also thought about this problem, such as the highly venomous cobra is the enemy of the Indians, it is said that in order to deal with the cobra, the early Rulers of India even announced the bounty policy, catch the cobra can go to the bounty, so the Indians have caught the snake for the bounty, but the result is derived from a cobra breeding industry, the Indian ruler saw the situation is not good, immediately stopped the bounty policy, the snake keepers have no income, and put more snakes back into the wild. So to this day, the snake infestation in India remains unresolved. Coupled with the fact that the Indians also regarded the serpent as Lord Shiva, this problem was even more difficult to deal with.