If you’re a snake, he’s not to be trifled with (Picture: CEN)

Not since Hercules has an infant dealt with a snake so ruthlessly.

In what could be described as poetic justice, a venomous snake was bitten to death by a 17-month-old boy in Brazil.

The mother of this serpent-slaying child, Jaine Ferreira Figueira, said she was terrified when Lorenzo ran into the house with blood around his mouth and a snake in his hands.

But she had nothing to be worried about.


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It turned out that a jaracara, a kind of poisonous pit viper, had approached Lorenzo in the garden and Lorenzo had bitten it to death, reports RT.



‘He bit the young jararaca close to its head, which immobilized it and prevented it from biting him,’ said Gilmar Carteri, a doctor at Sao Luiz hospital.

‘The boy was very shaken up – I think it was a self-defense instinct that kicked in, or he thought it was a toy.”

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