Today the kid excitedly called us up and said he had seen a snake in our yard and that he screamed and dropped everything he was holding and ran into the house. It seems the snake was medium sized and he was scared that it would bite him. Actually he's very fond of the snake stories that my husband tells him but it was his first live encounter with one, that too alone.
When we were growing up, we lived in the middle of trees with a Nagabana nearby which used to have visitors except for us only on Nagarapanchami. Huge anthills were very common in the area and so were big snakes. Pappa who used to come in the middle of the night after his AIR duty never used to carry a torch with him and somehow managed not to get bitten by the snakes he almost walked on. I have seen a cobra, a king cobra and umpteen number of water and rat snakes in my childhood. The small stream near our house would be dammed in the summer to provide water to the nearby plantation and the mud bank was our bridge to the other side. After 6 if we were returning home after playing in the empty paddy fields, we would see many a water snake creeping up the mud bank and hurrying back into the water seeing us. Rat snakes would often find our house a good source of food thanks to the mice which periodically nested in the crevices of our wooden roof. Long snakes would show up even in the daytime scaring me out only to return back relieved that it was only a ratsnake.
When we were growing up, we lived in the middle of trees with a Nagabana nearby which used to have visitors except for us only on Nagarapanchami. Huge anthills were very common in the area and so were big snakes. Pappa who used to come in the middle of the night after his AIR duty never used to carry a torch with him and somehow managed not to get bitten by the snakes he almost walked on. I have seen a cobra, a king cobra and umpteen number of water and rat snakes in my childhood. The small stream near our house would be dammed in the summer to provide water to the nearby plantation and the mud bank was our bridge to the other side. After 6 if we were returning home after playing in the empty paddy fields, we would see many a water snake creeping up the mud bank and hurrying back into the water seeing us. Rat snakes would often find our house a good source of food thanks to the mice which periodically nested in the crevices of our wooden roof. Long snakes would show up even in the daytime scaring me out only to return back relieved that it was only a ratsnake.
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