Country house snakes
The sultry month of Bhadra is hot. Occasionally there is heavy rain. The paddy trees are locked in the fields. Water in the paddy field then. As our tidal country, water does not freeze very much. But in the garden or in low places, when the tide comes, the water comes and fills the holes. And this hole is the abode of snakes. That environment becomes suitable for the environment in which people live. Barisal district is a country of rivers and the settlements and canals along the banks of this river flow through the villages like veins. Two or three ponds in each house. The soil is very fertile as it is a tidal country. Snakes, bejis and gossips all roam in the garden. Occasionally they come to the householder's house. Snakes come most of all. Snakes are very infested during the rainy season.
Ducks were kept in our house. Carbolic acid was spread in their house, but who knows how the snake would enter. As a result, ducks often died. After the evening Berole had to go out with a torch, or with a hurricane. Almost all the houses in the village are raw. Straw or shan rice. The snakes also lived in that rice. If there was a shout in someone's eyes, then there was no way but to kill him with a stick. Our backyard was big, we were allowed to get bricks during the rainy season to go from house to house. A lot of times someone is going, the snake sees it. Immediately shouted, “Oh! Snake here! Bring the stick! ” How many snakes have died like this!
Once, Chhodda hit a snake with a stick so hard that no one could find it. There is a common belief in village houses that snakes come back and bite when they are injured. Seeing Chhoddar's trunk, Rangadada said, "Vaidi, Kamda did not do well! Anyway, this time we will do Chand Saudagar Theater in the name of mother Manasa. ”Several days later, the snake's head was found on Renu's rice.
What I was saying; The events of the month of Bhadra. My sister was married then. He came to our house at the beginning of the month. At last Taoimshai came to pick him up. Didi then had children. The bed has been laid on the floor for warmth to get the rug. Mom and sister on either side, I lay in the middle. Didi will leave, Taoimshai has come on top of her. Pithepayes was that day. Mother and sister-in-law have arranged them in the kitchen again.
Who knows how many nights it will be then, my mother woke up when she heard a noise from the kitchen. Mother opened the mosquito net and went to the kitchen to light the hurricane. Wondering if the cat entered the forest again?
A bedroom after the big house, then the kitchen. Mom went and saw, everything is fine! He entered the house again, washed his face, left the hurricane and sat down to eat and drink. My mother was addicted to alcohol. Panta has just rubbed her cheek and sees that the mosquito on her feet is moving a lot. My mother says to herself, "Chhodomaiatar's bed is bad, where did she sleep and where did she go? She will leave the mosquito net this time."
Saying the words, he picked up the mosquito net to make me lie down. He immediately said, "Oh, Baba Ray, that big snake is in the mosquito net !!" Shouted. Didi was half asleep then. She too got up when she heard her mother screaming. The mother said, "Get him out of Tainga."
Didi is pulling me out holding my hand and I am thinking in my sleep that the robber is coming and taking Didi away. I screamed with all my strength, "Save me, save me." At once all the people in the house got up. Some came with torches in their hands, some with sticks.
Then the mosquito net was opened completely. The lights are on. "Search, search - where did it go?"
The elder brother was at home then. Barada, Boudi, Kabirajdada used to sleep in the house of Vit in the north. All the houses were searched. No, nowhere.
"Run away!"
The mother said that when she opened the mosquito net, she saw him running lightning fast in the north room. The search lasted for two hours. Everyone said, “Now you go to sleep. He is not at home. ”
We are thorns in the side of fear. Srikanthmamu, the sister-in-law of our relatives, who was older than his elder brother, used to work on our land. He was very intelligent, faithful and brave. After the people have left, Srikanthmamu is smoking tobacco, and Barda is also sitting at a water table. Both are discussing where the snake went? Quite a big snake. Both are very skeptical. The elder said, "Let's go, you and I will see each other again."
"Let's go, Mama," the two of them came home again and started looking. Big brother has four battery torches, Mamu has a stick. After finishing the house, he went to the next bedroom. The room is quite long. Bed leaves on one side. There are racks. To the right of the door to the dining room from the barracks was a huge earthen jar, called matki in the country, on the floor. Rice was kept in it. Then it is empty. The elder is slowly throwing the torch light. Suddenly, as soon as he saw the light in the pot, he saw that the whole body was curled up and its head was sitting up. He will not die now. What can be done then? It is not possible to climb on the body of the pot. He must have fallen inside in a hurry while fleeing.
The suggestion is, will you stay awake or not? The elder then said to Mamu, “There are all the bronze dishes in the kitchen, for dinner. Come back with five or six items. Bring two bricks, bring a polo and shake the net. ” Polo is a fishing equipment made of bamboo. The net we cover the food with, looks a lot like that, but the gaps are a little bigger. The space above is empty. From there the fish is caught by inserting the hand.
Then a plate was placed on the pot, two bricks on top of it. Then the polo was pressed, surrounded by a net over it.
"Bysa, now sleep peacefully. Morning, then arrangements, ”said the elders and went to sleep. I also fell asleep. Didi and mother go to bed to get a new bed, I don't know if they have been able to sleep.
I woke up in the morning. Dad, it's as if the market is sitting at home. Apart from the people of the house, people have come from here and there. Everyone's curiosity! This is a matter in the village house, if something happens somewhere, he spreads the news in a moment, "You haven't heard, that house has a snake bite."
And the funniest thing of all, everyone advises. Like the snakes in the village, people kill them. Not so afraid. In our house, my Chhodda and Rangadada are masters of snake bites. If a snake falls in front of them, there is no salvation.
As soon as I got out of bed, I went to the dock, washed my eyes and left. The fence or partition in front of the room where the snake is being opened. Long porch open in front. After opening, there was a lot of light in the room. Sticks in the hands of many. Rangadada's hand-made snake trap. Hard bamboo sticks are used to make loops with fences. Just as a fishing rod is tied to a fishing rod, so is a fishing rod tied to a fishing rod. The head of the stick is hanging. The cane end of that loop hangs, like a long; So that the head of the snake will be inserted into the noose and the edge of the cane will be pulled and the noose will sit on the neck of the snake. Then he will pull the snake out. Then beat with a bamboo stick.
This arrangement was made till the end of this snake too.
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And once a huge snake was caught next to our temple. As a child, I had the job of showing in the evening at home. Lakshmi Thakur was in the house, Radhakrishna, Shiva, Vishnu were in the temple and Kalachand was on one side. A very large statue. I heard when our grandfather got sick and got Kalachand in a dream. Since then he has been staying at home. His puja does not have a cure. Lollipop or sandesh, but comes with a packet of cannabis. One morning a man came in front of me and said to Jethima, “Jethima, I was swearing to Kalachacha for polar disease. Pola is fine, I have brought puja for hey. ”
It is half past eleven. Jethima was worshiping. While I was there, I saw that Jethima had arranged lollipops on a plate. The pot of Kalachand was covered with a pot. Jethima emptied the pot a little from one side, inserted a bundle of cannabis and covered it again.
In the evening, as usual, I went to give the evening. In the evening I will show you the brass, I will ring the bell, I will show you the incense, I will come out with the lamp. In a moment I got a sample of what curiosity can be deadly. As soon as I picked up the pot, I jumped up and came to the verandah of the mandapa shouting Baba Go Baba Go.
A bunch of snakes came out. People in the yard in the evening, children. Dad will come to Narayan's temple in the morning and evening and bow down. Others do too. So everyone came and surrounded me, "What happened, what do you see, Manu?"
What can I say, I have become a thorn in the side of fear. Dad said, "Oh ma'am, what happened, body!"
"Snake snake, many snakes!"
"Where did I see it?"
Then I became a little accustomed and said everything. Chhodda slapped him when he heard it, “Ah, have you eaten cannabis or have you gone to see? It's all right, can't you hug me? ”
Jethima came and stopped Chhodda, "Let him go now, Maiyada is scared, can you kill him again?" Which, in the temple, Dhuikya now sees whether there is a snake or not. Tomorrow I will go to worship Mui again. ”
"Either way, this time take all the polapan and move the body. Mora will be useful this time."
Snake expert Rangadada commented, Hiralal took the lady and came back. ”
When the hijacking took place, the grandfathers all entered the temple. All the places are searched, where is the key? There is a drain at the back, from where the water of the temple comes out. The side of the drain was well seen. There is no sign of a snake. The mandapa faces west. Back to the east. He turned to the south.
Looking around, he saw a hole in the bottom of the wall. Then everyone decided that the snake is here. Maizgadada said to Chhodda, "Vaidi, hold the torch well.
Chhodda held the torch fixed at the mouth of the hole. And Maizgadada went very close to the hole and looked hunched over. Then he hurriedly jumped up and said, "That's it !! The two eyes are shining! ”
Byss, Rangadada ordered, "Go, take the cane acre and come back."
The cane acre is a long thin nylon rope-like cane tentacle part, with thorns all over the body. Very hard The thorn is inserted into the snake's hole with a frog on its head. Frogs are the favorite food of snakes. Bambabaji started fidgeting in fear and Sapbabaji came and topped him and swallowed him. The more it is swallowed, the more the thorns build up. How long can it stay like this? Becomes overwhelmed; Then he grabbed the root of Accra and pulled out the snake.
This snake was deadly powerful. By evening he had swallowed Accra with two frogs. Again the bait of the frog was given. This work continued till about twelve o'clock at night. Then everyone broke the war and went to bed. Saying "Beytane Uithgya can be seen again!"
We little ones were so excited. I woke up the next morning. And get up next to the mandapa. I forgot to eat in the morning. All the soldiers of Sarpanidhan also appeared.
"Oh, that can be done!"
"Hey, that's a deadly shoot!"
What a comment. Mother and sister-in-law harass us by calling us to eat Everyone's work has been learned.
After a while, Chhodda came and said, “Chhodmanu, Kanu, Bela, whatever you eat, come first. What's so significant about a goat's head? "
I ran and ran again with my nose and sat down. We can also see that the face of the snake is right in front of the hole, almost swallowing the cane. What is out there is not in the condition of being held by hand. And the snake is roaring. Rangadada is deeply worried.
Who works in the village house for hours? But then I think it will be seven or eight in the afternoon. Our grandfather came and appeared. Majiddada's home was in the village of Hogla, where he befriended Chhoddar, even though he was older. Later we have a better relationship with our family than Chhoddar. Majiddada came and saw him once. Then he went to meet his father. Meanwhile, Barobou is calling for more rice for Majiddada, while Rangadadara is calling. Majiddada said, "Rangabhai, wait, Ettu, let's eat rice twice." From side to side just observing. Then he thought for a while and said, “Rangabhai, take a big fishing rod. I will try my best. ”
Large fishing rods were brought to the river. Wrapping his lungi, Majiddada proceeded to the hole with a fishing rod in his hand. Then, before blinking, he put the hook in the snake's mouth. Then he grabbed her thread and began to pull her gently. We see yes, the snake is slowly coming out by pulling the thread. Accra of three canes in his throat, the condition is miserable. Gradually the whole snake was brought out. What a huge long snake he is !! Swollen stomach after swallowing a frog. Then the hole was dug a little bit with a knife. A bunch of baby snakes came out. I saw them!
“There is no body in that coal? Now Daho, Daho everyone. They are the ones who ate Tomago Kalachand's cannabis. "
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