MY EXPERIENCE WITH SNAKES.
I was born in
the village which is located on the river side of Thamira bharani. Thamira
bharani river is flowing in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Our village is
surrounded by water ponds, paddy fields and water canals. I studied at
Palayamkottai, which is 3 Km away from our village. I used to go to school
along with our village boys by walking thorough paddy fields. Almost every day
I used to see water snake, rat snake and green snake in and around our village
as well as on the way to school. This is a common affair in our day to day
life. In my life time I have seen cobra only few times. Cobras are called
“nalla pambu” in Tamil. “nalla pambu”means Good snake. First time when I saw
the cobra with raised hood just in front my feet within 1 feet distance, I was
terribly afraid. I ran away to home and I fell sick. I suffered from typhoid
fever for one and half months. This incident happened at the age of 15.Again at
age of 33 a cobra entered my house. During that period I had to face
litigations for property dispute.
On the third
occasion, when my wife was standing in front of our house with the child in the
hand, a cobra just climbed over the feet of her and went away. That day was
SivaRathri day. From that day onwards our financial position improved.
Anything common
is not a indicator of Future events, but the uncommon is the sure indicator of
future events. They are called omens.
