India and their snakes.

If you haven't noticed yet, snakes are a large and important part to the culture in India.  It was normal to hunt snakes up until the 1970s when the government banned the practice of hunting snakes.  Besides hunting the animal, people make festivals and celebrations.   A common action people do to snakes are use them in their snake charming songs to earn money and or attention.  Though most of the adult population of India knows that snakes are rather poisonous and can kill they still use them whenever they can.  Besides entertainment and food the snake has been used to make a anti poison to prevent the deaths of many people.