In India, a cobra coiled itself around the leg of a sleeping woman in the state of Uttar Pradesh and forced her to pray for several hours while waiting for a serpent.
Mitesh Yadav woke up to something squeezing her leg and saw the venomous snake. The woman managed to keep her composure and started praying for the reptile to crawl away without harming her. She turned to Shiva, a deity who is known for his affection for snakes. “I was sleeping with my two children and when I woke up, I saw a snake dwelling around my leg. I asked my mother to take the children away and waited for hours for it to crawl away,” the Indian woman said.
She admitted that at one point she thought she would not survive and started thinking about who would take care of her children. Soon, the woman’s entire family and even neighbors joined in the prayer.
However, before turning to Shiva, Yadav’s family called the police, who in turn contacted the local snake handler. However, to everyone’s surprise, the cobra let go of the woman’s leg on its own and crawled away from the house before the specialist arrived. Later, he did capture the reptile and released it in the woods, away from residential areas.
