krait

krait Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.
2007, A. Philip Parham, Feeling Free, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hdQliAmdgI0C&pg=PA190&dq=%22krait%22%7C%22kraits%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4rJOUq3pLsyaiQfin4DQCQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22krait%22%7C%22kraits%22&f=false page 190,

"Now, if you run into one of these kraits, you better NOT run away else you're a goner. It'll catch you for sure and you will die in your tracks.(..)"

Very much in my thoughts is Joe Slowinski, a herpetologist killed a few years earlier by a misidentified juvenile krait, a snake so small that he couldn't tell if the fang had punctured the skin.

India has a healthy share of poisonous snakes, including kraits, cobras, and two species of vipers, yet Hindu traditions are overwhelmingly snake-friendly.