マレーシア・ニュース

蛇が大好きな３歳少女

クアラ・トレンガヌ：シティ・アミラちゃんはどこにでもいるオモチャ好きな３歳児。しかし、彼女の場合他の子たちと違うのは、そのオモチャがキングコブラを含めた蛇というものだ。それ故、シティちゃんの地元のクランタンでは「蛇のお姫様」というニックネームまでつけられている。昨日の独立記念日のセレモニーでは数百の蛇たちと檻の中で戯れ、多くの見物人を惹きつけた。彼女の父親、サユティ・ハルンさん（61）の仕事はへび使いでシティちゃんが１歳のころからへびと遊ばせて彼女が蛇と上手に接していることに気がついていたという。サユティさんはへび使いのスキルを自分の父親から習得したが、今度は娘を自分の後継者に育てたいと語っている。サユティさんはへびをクランタンやトレンガヌで捕獲し、全部で112匹を所有。その中にはニシキヘビやガラガラ蛇も含まれているという。

[ 9月1日　9：23　MCS]

ニュース・ソース

Snakes are like toys to three-year-old Siti Amirah

KUALA TERENGGANU: She loves playing with toys like any other three-year-old but the difference is that some of her "toys"are lethal - they include King Cobras.
Siti Amirah Sayuti from Kelantan is called the Princess of Snake due to her dexterity in handling the reptiles.
Calling each of her pet snakes by their nicknames , Siti Amirah mesmerised hundreds of spectators who turned up to celebrate the National Day at Primula Beach Resort here yesterday.
She singled out her favourite snake Mimah, a cobra, when Siti was confined in a cage with some 30 poisonous snakes.
Her father ,Sayuti harun, a snake charmer, had exposed his daughter to snakes when she was a year old and he noticed that there was a special bond between her and the snakes.
"I placed the snakes around Siti when she was a toddler and the reptiles seemed comfortable with her.
"I decided then that Siti would be my successor," said he acquired snake-handling skills from his late father in 1971.
" I decided to passe the skills to my youngest child, who seems to have an interest in reptiles," said the father of 12.
Sayuti said most of his snakes were captured in Kelantan and Terengganu.
He has 112 of them including pythons and rattlesnakes.
When she was confined with the snakes, Siti showed no fear. Instead she asked her pets: "Mu sihat?" (Are you fine?)in Kelantanese dialect.
She stayed with them for almost an hour.Some were curling up on her neck and hands.
When she left the cage, the crowd applauded loudly but Siti, unaffected by all the attention,reached out for her milk bottle.

＜1-9-2006 The Star＞
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