Sidhi Siddharth Sinune crawls behind the python
and shrieks in delight as it weaves through her
tiny legs.
While her parents are away working in the fields
in a rural Indian village in Maharashtra, the baby
girl pats the reptile and even playfully bites its tail.
The non-venomous snake could easily squeeze
Sidhi to death or swallow her whole.
But her father, Siddharth Sinune, said he cannot
afford to buy her toys – instead bringing home
his prey from his job as a snake catcher.
Before putting them back in the forests, he keeps
them at home for his only daughter’s
amusement.
Siddharth said: ‘Sidhi has an unusual bonding
with the snakes and surprisingly they too like to
play with her.
‘Being a poor farmer, I can’t buy her costly toys
but I can get her snakes to play with.
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