10 interesting facts about snakes that you never knew (+Pics)

3. The Cobra Village

A native community known as Ban Kok Sa Nga of north-eastern Thailand has dangerous passion for snakes. Outside almost every house in the village there a wooden crate containing a long hissing serpent. It all began when in the 1950s when a doctor suggested the town folks to breed serpents and put on cobra show that will make the town famous. And it did. The village holds a circus every year where they organise all sorts of games involving snakes; one such game is cobra boxing match where the handler will tease the snake and dodge its angry attacks. For the Ban Kok Sa Nga community snakes are like their pets and children are, at a very young age, taught to deal with them. But that doesn’t make the serpents a substitute of dogs or cats, for snakes, at the end of the day are life threatening. Bualee Chai, a handler has been bitten at least 21 times and had to lose a few figures as a consequence.