Ritual of playing with Snakes in West Bengal

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A man dances with snakes on his body during the snake festival in West Bengal. The snake charmers called Jhampanias get most of the attention. They demonstrate tricks and feats with poisonous snakes like cobras, vipers, pythons and more. In fact, Jhapan literally means a stage erected to exhibit tricks with snakes. Source: lonelyplanet.in This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow motion, Full HD, HDCAM 1080i High Definition, Alexa and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you o