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Infant Fights Cobra in Bizarre Indian Ritual

by Justin Glow (RSS feed) on May 14th 2007 at 2:30PM

Think you've seen it all? The video above shows a one-year-old baby "fighting" a de-fanged cobra snake in a bizarre right-of-passage for the young Indian child. And by "fighting" I'm sure they mean "just laying there while a friggin' snake tries to sink its fangs into his head."

"This bizarre spectator sport - reportedly from Kasimkota in Andhra Pradesh - has been condemned by animal rights protesters after footage appeared on the internet," according to an article in the Daily Mail. Apparently a cobra's fangs can grow back before the "fight" is over, and the babies are put in danger of being bitten by one of the most dangerous and poisonous snakes in the world.

Please tell me this is an isolated case.

Filed under: Arts and Culture, India, Video

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ava May 14th 2007 6:05PM

Animal rights' activists? Who is looking after the kids?

AK May 15th 2007 6:54PM

I agree. Being from India I can say that this is an isolated population - this is NOT the norm in India as the title may suggest. The YouTube messages are already generalizing the video to the entire population of India. I hope that the readers of this site don't make the same mistake.

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