Charmed woman marries snake in India (1 Viewer)

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A woman who fell in love with a snake has married the reptile at a traditional Hindu wedding celebrated by 2,000 guests in India's Orissa state, reports said.

Bimbala Das wore a silk saree for the ceremony Wednesday at Atala village near the Orissa state capital Bhubaneswar.

Priests chanted mantras to seal the union, but the snake failed to come out of a nearby ant hill where it lives, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said on Friday.
A brass replica snake stood in for the hesitant groom.

"Though snakes cannot speak nor understand, we communicate in a peculiar way," Das, 30, told the agency. ​

"Whenever I put milk near the ant hill where the cobra lives, it always comes out to drink.

"I always get to see it every time I go near the ant hill. It has never harmed me," she added.

Villagers welcomed the wedding in the belief it would bring good fortune and laid on a feast for the big day.

Snakes and particularly the King Cobra are venerated in India as religious symbols worn by Lord Shiva, the god of destruction.

Das, from a lower caste, converted to the animal-loving vegetarian Vaishnav sect whose local elders gave her permission to marry the cobra, the world's largest venomous snake that can grow up to five metres.
"I am happy," said her mother Dyuti Bhoi, who has two other daughters and two sons to marry off.

"Bimbala was ill," Bhoi told local OTV channel. "We had no money to treat her. Then she started offering milk to the snake ... she was cured. That made her fall in love."

Das has moved into a hut built close to the ant hill since the wedding.
Earlier this year, a tribal girl was married off to a dog on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.

 

[DiStefano]

Well, at least she won't have to worry about some floozy down the street stealing her husband.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Follow-up story:

Snake charged with murder for eating wife.

 

[DiStefano]

Follow-up story:

Snake charged with murder for eating wife.

Yes, but he'll get off. They have a "slither your ground" law in India.

 

[The General]

Follow-up story:

Snake charged with murder for eating wife.

In cold blood.

 

[squistion]

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Earlier this year, a tribal girl was married off to a dog on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.

 

[T Bell]

Clever snake - I'll bet he had her sign a pre-nip.

 

[squistion]

Clever snake - I'll bet he had her sign a pre-nip.

If he didn't he would have made an asp of himself.

 

[fatness]

How long is the snake? Length matters.

 

[rockaction]

Clever snake - I'll bet he had her sign a pre-nip.

If he didn't he would have made an asp of himself.

eta* Also, great thread title.

 

[HughHoney]

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Earlier this year, a tribal girl was married off to a dog on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.

Start hiding milk bones.

 

[Henry Ford]

We all knew this would start happening once gay marriage became commonplace.

 

[gianmarco]

"You don't cook. You don't clean. All you do is lay around the house."

 

[Parrothead]

she said he was hung like an anaconda

 

[Homer J Simpson]

she said he was hung like an anaconda

Unfortunately, anacondas are the Asian guys of the snake world.

 

[Henry Ford]

"Do you know what it's like to be a stay at home mom with 50 newborns???"