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Few days ago, a snake charmer came to me introducing himself as the brother-in-law of snake charmer Yenkta and told me that Yenkta died of a snake bite. Fever suffering Yenkta went on a call to catch a cobra and grabbed the snake by its neck instead of the head giving an opportunity to the cobra to bite him and died within few hours! Read On
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