The "Snake Man" is real. The mythical creature with the body of a
serpent and face of a human folds himself into a tight coil for the
gasping crowds, before slithering into his next impossible position.
Or at least, that's how
it seemed to circus manager Winston Ruddle when he first saw the
homeless boy dressed head-to-toe in a snake skin suit, performing on the
streets of Mombasa, Kenya.
A decade later, the
mysterious "Snake Man" -- better known as 30-year-old contortionist
Lazarus Gitu -- is now set to perform on New York's Broadway, one of the
star acts in Ruddle's spectacular circus show, "Mother Africa."
"I had been in the circus business since the 1980s and I'd never seen something like Lazarus," said Ruddle.
"It's not so common to find a flexible man -- most contortionists are females from Mongolia or China. He was so unusual."
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