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If you are willing to buy my herbs, here you take it. It is going to help you treat all sorts of ailments, including snakebites from my snakes here. Please take the opportunity now because soon I will go away and you will regret...

These were words of a daring young man who, in a local language (Luganda), announcing the power of his herbs as he played around with live healthy snakes in a bid for big sales. The bouncy, shabbily dressed youth shouted about his business as many enthusiastic young and old looked in awe at him and considered his own game.

This seeming young man, carrying about 4 healthy looking cobra snakes and a baby one in his pockets, sells local herbs that he believes help treat several ailments. Thank God he made no mention of HIV/AIDS.

These were seriously big snakes weighing about 16 Kg, 4metres long with a thickness of 10 cms. Believe it or not, my eyes did not see those snakes on him, at least not at first.

In any natural circumstances one would faint at the sight of this snake game. I did not get the chance or the courage to ask his name, as the sight of these dangerous animals motivated me to keep a considrable distance.

Just like any other onlooker, I was keen on seeing what this man was showing us (meaning myself, an American on a fellowship at a local newspaper, and a young lady beside me, not forgetting an 8 year old girl who had probably had leave from school. I only realized she was around after she continuously kept making noise in an exclamation of what she was seeing).

If you have ever seen a snake and would dare stand close to it, then the one you would see would perhaps be a rubber snake or at most one that you would have bred right after hatching the egg from the warmth of your blanket.

Well this particular snake looked innocent as it coiled itself around the young man's neck but looked so aggressive every time the young man tried to put it on the ground. The snake gave the impression that it would go for any soul around, and you could tell how all of us, including John and Mary, would take off at a mere thought that the thing would attempt to put its head on the ground. What beat my understanding was how this man could easily go about his game, and how he has lived with these reptiles.

I know that these are common. Yes, you and I have gone to the circus shows and have seen a gloriously glaring muscular man jump on a lion or leopard, with comfort, moving around for all of us to watch. Why not believe this, I side with you that it can duly happen.