The village in India where kids learn to be snake-charmers...

Being a few feet away from a poisonous snake has a wonderful way of concentrating the mind. 

Six-year-old Rekha Bae – like all children in the 600-strong nomadic Vadi tribe in western India – will have first been introduced to cobras at the age of two. 

All Vadi children complete a ten-year initiation ritual that culminates in the boys becoming fully-fledged performing snake charmers. More + images...

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