Nagin's revenge chase
Nagin's revenge chase
Vijay Upadyay
Agra. In what is being termed as the height of superstition prevalent in rural India, a 12 years old Agra kid spent an entire week on a six foot high charpoy, guarded by a horde of baton-wielding villagers, afraid of a snake that was a mere chemical locha of his mind.
This drama that had gripped the Taharpur village of Agra for a full week came to an end on Saturday evening. It was only when a snake-charmer brought a snake to the village claiming that this was the same snake that had been stalking Monu. Following a ritual that involved allowing the charmed snake to harmlessly bite Monu three times, he was declared free from the "snake's curse".
According to the residents of the Taharpur village, Monu, the twelve years old son of Chandrakant was going to school on Monday when he accidentally killed a cobra under his bicycle and when he returned home, he found another cobra stalking him wherever he went. Though when he told this incident to his parents, the snake supposedly disappeared in thin air.
Believing that the stalker snake could be the mythical female snake out to kill Monu to avenge the death of her male companion, Monu's parents constructed a six foot high charpoy for him and perched him atop this structure, where he continued to be fed, sleeping and sitting throughout the day and night throughout the week, afraid that the snake was stalking nearby and will bite him if he came down at the ground level.
As if this was not enough, dozens of villagers guarded the kid day and night against the attack of the snake, which curiously, was not visible to them. Only the boy pointed out that he had seen the snake crawl past one or the other corner of the house. Constantly on the edge of their nerve, the villagers killed dozens of snakes that they found in the village and going to the very extreme on Thursday, they even demolished a wall of the house to beat out the imaginary snake.
But while the entire Taharpur village is now rejoicing Monu's freedom from the snake's curse, local psychologists believe that this snake was imaginary, hiding in the brain of Monu, who, feeling neglected by his parents and friends, had unconsciously created this snake in his mind. The move was just to seek attention towards himself and when the snake-charmer let a harmless, possibly de-toothed snake bite Monu, the chemical imbalance that was creating the image of the snake was cured.
Vijay Upadyay
Agra. In what is being termed as the height of superstition prevalent in rural India, a 12 years old Agra kid spent an entire week on a six foot high charpoy, guarded by a horde of baton-wielding villagers, afraid of a snake that was a mere chemical locha of his mind.
This drama that had gripped the Taharpur village of Agra for a full week came to an end on Saturday evening. It was only when a snake-charmer brought a snake to the village claiming that this was the same snake that had been stalking Monu. Following a ritual that involved allowing the charmed snake to harmlessly bite Monu three times, he was declared free from the "snake's curse".
According to the residents of the Taharpur village, Monu, the twelve years old son of Chandrakant was going to school on Monday when he accidentally killed a cobra under his bicycle and when he returned home, he found another cobra stalking him wherever he went. Though when he told this incident to his parents, the snake supposedly disappeared in thin air.
Believing that the stalker snake could be the mythical female snake out to kill Monu to avenge the death of her male companion, Monu's parents constructed a six foot high charpoy for him and perched him atop this structure, where he continued to be fed, sleeping and sitting throughout the day and night throughout the week, afraid that the snake was stalking nearby and will bite him if he came down at the ground level.
As if this was not enough, dozens of villagers guarded the kid day and night against the attack of the snake, which curiously, was not visible to them. Only the boy pointed out that he had seen the snake crawl past one or the other corner of the house. Constantly on the edge of their nerve, the villagers killed dozens of snakes that they found in the village and going to the very extreme on Thursday, they even demolished a wall of the house to beat out the imaginary snake.
But while the entire Taharpur village is now rejoicing Monu's freedom from the snake's curse, local psychologists believe that this snake was imaginary, hiding in the brain of Monu, who, feeling neglected by his parents and friends, had unconsciously created this snake in his mind. The move was just to seek attention towards himself and when the snake-charmer let a harmless, possibly de-toothed snake bite Monu, the chemical imbalance that was creating the image of the snake was cured.
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