It was given to her by her father who is a farmer and earns extra cash as a snake catcher. He brought his prey home for his daughter to play with because he says he is too poor to afford toys.
'Sidhi has an unusual bonding with the snakes and surprisingly they too like to play with her,' said Siddharth Sinune.
'Being a poor farmer, I can't buy her costly toys but I can get her snakes to play with.'
So while he and his wife are working in nearby fields in a rural part of south-west India the youngster pats the powerful snake which is capable of killing her by constriction in an instant.
In one image she squeezes its scales with her little hands in another she chews on its tail with her gums. Shrieking with delight she lets it weave through her legs.
Although not venomous, pythons are constrictors that kill by constriction, or by swallowing their prey whole. After catching snakes which stray into the fields close to the village in the state of Maharashtra Sidhi's father releases them back to the surrounding forests.
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