igbodefender:
Having to push one's bitten hand forward inside the mouth of a python to control the damagebshould be one of the wisest but most painful decisions an attacked human would have to make.

Correct, but dat is even if u remember to do it cause panic might set in and u pull ur hand back and ur skin rips apart

tofolo:
what if you now kill and eat?

please don't try it o. if you mistakenly kill it, then don't eat it, just call an elderly person who will direct you on what to do. in some cases, it involves burial ceremony with coffin. but if you kill and eat, my dear, you are on your own o, this is Africa, they are snakes dedicated to some wicked deities of Igbo land, like idemili, Njaba , Ulasi etc think about it, snakes that cohabits peacefully with humans, it doesn't harm or run away from humans, children play with it and it protects them from harm too. my brother , no chop am o before you will start seeing masquerade pursuing you in your dreams and you fail in all you set out to do in life

OruExpress:
I believe the python is respected like this in Imo, Anambra, Rivers and Abia. I think they can kill it in Enugu and Ebonyi and I don't know about Delta and Edo

in Edo state we call it oboto , and we do eat it , people even set trap for it

Zikora1000:
please don't try it o. if you mistakenly kill it, then don't eat it, just call an elderly person who will direct you on what to do. in some cases, it involves burial ceremony with coffin. but if you kill and eat, my dear, you are on your own o, this is Africa, they are snakes dedicated to some wicked deities of Igbo land, like idemili, Njaba , Ulasi etc think about it, snakes that cohabits peacefully with humans, it doesn't harm or run away from humans, children play with it and it protects them from harm too. my brother , no chop am o before you will start seeing masquerade pursuing you in your dreams and you fail in all you set out to do in life

Thanks we really need to know our culture and traditions.

Maryjane001:


Uh....I don't know Agwunnaga. I m just familiar with umuzu and ubahinnaka. My mum z from the latter

Hehe . I understand. When was last time you visited home

AngryNijerian:
I know one woman that python mistakenly bit in her farm. She said to the python; why will you bite me, don't you know that i'm daughter of the soil and besides i didn't intentionally march you. Immediately the python's venom started dripping off her leg. You will think its a story but it actually happened.

Python doesn't have venom. So the woman story is just based on fear and belief. Anybody can touch and carry Python as long as it's not big or hungry enough to try and squeeze life out of you.

Python has tried to swallow people's babies on several occasions in these places they are being respected. Stealing people's goat and chicken is a normal past time for those pythons and the people will just find one excuse to justify it and be happy the python chose them to provide food for it.

Apart from Njaba, Orlu and close towns surrounding Anambra who share similar beliefs, other parts of Imo state and Igbo land will happily turn the Python into a communal feast. You'll even see people carrying takeaway pepper soup to their relations who were not around when it was killed.

jmichael259:


Python doesn't have venom. So the woman story is just based on fear and belief. Anybody can touch and carry Python as long as it's not big or hungry enough to try and squeeze life out of you.

Python has tried to swallow people's babies on several occasions in these places they are being respected. Stealing people's goat and chicken is a normal past time for those pythons and the people will just find one excuse to justify it and be happy the python chose them to provide food for it.

Apart from Njaba, Orlu and close towns surrounding Anambra who share similar beliefs, other parts of Imo state and Igbo land will happily turn the Python into a communal feast. You'll even see people carrying takeaway pepper soup to their relations who were not around when it was killed.

There are quite many lies here but known consumers and devourers are ENUGU and EBONYI...#fact.

The 2 state consumes snake meet with full force.

mightyokwy:

Hehe . I understand. When was last time you visited home

This year.....but I don't usually move around. I just stay with my relatives.......if I m tired of staying,I go jakpa

Maryjane001:


This year.....but I don't usually move around. I just stay with my relatives.......if I m tired of staying,I go jakpa

Lolz. .

omohz:


in Edo state we call it oboto , and we do eat it , people even set trap for it

I'm not talk about Bini people

btw, I think anyone that eats a lizard is a disgusting human being. I try not to judge but this one is beyond me. How can you see this





and think of eating? Anytime I hear of a place where they eat lizards I instantly cancel it in my mind

A cousin is from Awo omama and I have been told A lot about the snake there

1. You don't call it's name in the night
2. It's their ancestor / child of the njaba deity
3. It hears perfectly though it may choose to ignore you
4. It visits new born children and coils around them
5. It may decide not to show itself to you even if you stay there for months, people around will see it but before you turn, it's gone.

Some first hand stories:
My aunt's husband who is now a pastor went back to the village after giving his life to Christ, called the snakes name and drew a boundary with his cutlass round his apartment and warned that the day he catches the snake beyond that boundary, it's dead meat, till today when the snake visits other members of their extended family, it circles round the invisible boundary that man drew with its cutlass.

Meanwhile, there's a neighbouringvillage that eats the snake as a special delicacy, they share schools, markets etc, the young children from that village are very very notorious for stealing the snakes on their way back from school or wherever they meet it, the snake stays away from their boundary wella.

So the second story;
Not everyone is cool with the snake but they tolerate it due to traditions, so once the unwanted visitor comes, they usually try to take it out with a stick or whatever and sometimes, it refuses to go by dropping down each time it's picked up, so a new trick is to tell the snake that people from the neighbouring village are passing by. They said that the snake runs with unusual speed into the bush whenever it hears those people are passing which is a second proof that the snake hears perfectly.

obigold1:

Are you from Umunoha

Not from Umunoha,, but Azara-Obiato..... Noha is my maternal home though

valentinenw:
A cousin is from Awo omama and I have been told A lot about the snake there

1. You don't call it's name in the night
2. It's their ancestor / child of the njaba deity
3. It hears perfectly though it may choose to ignore you
4. It visits new born children and coils around them
5. It may decide not to show itself to you even if you stay there for months, people around will see it but before you turn, it's gone.

Some first hand stories:
My aunt's husband who is now a pastor went back to the village after giving his life to Christ, called the snakes name and drew a boundary with his cutlass round his apartment and warned that the day he catches the snake beyond that boundary, it's dead meat, till today when the snake visits other members of their extended family, it circles round the invisible boundary that man drew with its cutlass.

Meanwhile, there's a neighbouringvillage that eats the snake as a special delicacy, they share schools, markets etc, the young children from that village are very very notorious for stealing the snakes on their way back from school or wherever they meet it, the snake stays away from their boundary wella.

So the second story;
Not everyone is cool with the snake but they tolerate it due to traditions, so once the unwanted visitor comes, they usually try to take it out with a stick or whatever and sometimes, it refuses to go by dropping down each time it's picked up, so a new trick is to tell the snake that people from the neighbouring village are passing by. They said that the snake runs with unusual speed into the bush whenever it hears those people are passing which is a second proof that the snake hears perfectly.

Yeah it visits new born babies, not all though.. Just treat it with love,,, rub some baby powder on it and pour NZU for it,,, boom it goes away peacefully. I have experienced it before.

prince2pac:



Yeah it visits new born babies, not all though.. Just treat it with love,,, rub some baby powder on it and pour NZU for it,,, boom it goes away peacefully. I have experienced it before.

And that's how the new born babies in that community are initiated with a serpentine Spirit

BarrElChapo:
Reppin' Alor London Idemili south..

I hail o. Where in Alor are you from?

Okebunoye, You ?

hausadreturn:
I hail o. Where in Alor are you from?

BarrElChapo:
Okebunoye, You ?

I'm sorry, I didn't even see your reply.

Okebunoye too. Umudim.

hausadreturn:
I'm sorry, I didn't even see your reply.

Okebunoye too. Umudim.

hmmm nice one.. I too I'm umudim.. ntenege clan precisely.. You ?

BarrElChapo:


hmmm nice one.. I too I'm umudim.. ntenege clan precisely.. You ?

Umu-ezeneke.

In my town Umuaka, Njaba LGA we don't kill python, it's forbidden of killing it. She is respected and Sacred.

In my town Umuaka, Imo State Njaba LGA we don't kill python, it's forbidden of killing it. She is respected and Sacred.