At first Chaitali Majhi thought her boys were joking. But after they showed identical symptoms—drowsiness, nausea, stomach and body-ache—she knew it was serious and immediately rushed her sons to an ojha, a faith healer of the village. When the shaman’s mantras failed to improve their conditions, they rushed the boys to the local Raidighi Rural Hospital. The doctors  said the boys were bitten by a snake—a three-and-half feet long common krait was also recovered from a corner o