India, a country full of diversity, has a dangerous village where poisonous snakes are reared. Everyone know about the word cobra. The word is damn scary but not here in this village. The village is famous for cobras and that is why it is called the village of snakes.
India is well known in the world for its beauty in diversity. But people around the world probably are not aware of a village in India where people rear cobra snakes in their homes. Actually not even in India, people are fully aware of this strange village.
Usually people get scared just by hearing the name of snake, if a snake appears crawling before them, people get damn scared. A country where people are usually afraid of cockroaches and lizards, snakes are pretty scary thing for them. Talk about the people living in this village, they are not at all afraid of snakes, rather they rear snakes.
All this about this snake village may sound strange to you but here it is completely true. This village is located in the Indian state of Maharashtra. In this village, snakes do not reside only outside, they reside inside of the human houses too. They love to live with humans. The name of this ‘village of snakes’ is originally, Shetfal village.
The world’s only Cobra village
This Shetfal village of Maharashtra is also called Cobra village. Here cobras are raised in every house. The people do not keep dogs and cats at home, but cobra snakes are seen everywhere in their houses. The people of this village keep snakes because they consider cobras as a part of their family.
These are the snakes of Bhole Baba
For the people of this Cobra village, raring snakes is a part of their religious faith. That is why they are not afraid at all of the Cobras. They worship Lord Shiva and the necklace in the neck of their favorite Bhole Baba is also too respectful for them. These people see snakes as a symbol of Lord Shiva. That is why in this village, snakes are fed milk in every house. The surprising thing is that even the children living in the village are not afraid of snakes and they play with them.
Snakes are worshiped here
The people of Shetphal village worship snakes, and bow down their heads before the ornaments on Lord Shiva’s neck . If you come here to know about this village, you will see many temples here where snakes are being worshipped. You will have to think twice before entering any house.
They are peace loving snakes
If you have come here from outside, then obviously, you might get scared of the snakes since every where you roam around, you will find snakes. They will be seen even inside people’s bedrooms. Apart from houses, snakes are also seen resting in fields, trees and gardens. The people of this village say that these snakes do not scare them and they do not cause no harm to them at all.
The history belongs to the human-snakes togetherness
The people of this village say that snakes have been in their entirely through their life every day. Since the day of their arrival in this world till the date, the snakes have been their life partners since the beginning. Actually, years ago, their ancestors started rearing snakes. No one knows the reason why. But once what they had started, has been continued for the years and years together. The generation next has been following this tradition.
Snakes are children’s favorite toys here
Let alone adults, even small children have learnt to handle snakes from childhood in this village. If you are fond of exploring exciting places, then you must visit this village at least once. What you will see here, you will not see anywhere else in the world.
