AID OF THE COBRA
| AN INDIAN STORY A story from Lahore, India, relates that when a rich Moslem women cried for help against a carriage driver who had driven her* into the jungle to rob her, and her child of their jewellery, the robber almost strangled her with her lobe. Her boy cried for help, whereupon the man picked up a stone to strike him. But under that stone lay [a cobra, which bit the man on the leg j land hand. Within ten minutes the robber was dead. Now the stone under which the snake lay curled is the object of pilgrimage by thousands of Punjab villagers, who declare that it was the temporary resting place of the goddess of justice, who defends helpless women and children and who always heeds their calls for help. Every cobra in that district is now J spared, lest it should be the reincarnated goddess.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1937, Page 9
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