Some comments are asking, "Is it common in India to handle snakes". Let me tell you, its not.
These people are called "Sarpa Mitra" (Snake's friend) who are trained how to handle snake and even first aid in case of snake bites. Many people from small rural village get the trainings because snakes coming to houses are common when the land gets dry and hot.
I have certain cousins who got this training because they work in the field. The training mainly includes how to identify types of snakes and how to rescue these snakes and put them back into the forest or wherever.
Note, they're called "Snake's friends" to sensitize the taboo around snakes, and the process is called "snake rescue" rather than "human rescue."
Our house itself has had quite a few snake encounters, more than 10 in the last couple of years though 8/10 times the snakes left on their own, so yeah, most of the time Indians do not need to handle snakes.
Snakes are extremely common in some parts of India. Where I grew up my father had given us basic lessons to distinguish the poisonous ones from non poisonous. We needed this knowledge countless number of times simply playing outside as children.
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u/Kaccha-Kela 4d ago
Some comments are asking, "Is it common in India to handle snakes". Let me tell you, its not.
These people are called "Sarpa Mitra" (Snake's friend) who are trained how to handle snake and even first aid in case of snake bites. Many people from small rural village get the trainings because snakes coming to houses are common when the land gets dry and hot.
I have certain cousins who got this training because they work in the field. The training mainly includes how to identify types of snakes and how to rescue these snakes and put them back into the forest or wherever.
Note, they're called "Snake's friends" to sensitize the taboo around snakes, and the process is called "snake rescue" rather than "human rescue."