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Charmed woman marries cobra in India
Fri Jun 2, 7:43 AM ET
Source: Hindustan Times

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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.

THL

consummating the marriage ought to be interesting

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platinum786

actaully now that u mention it check this out...in the time of the pharoesh snakes where often used as dildo's...

people need to be brought out of the dark and into the 21st century, and internet connections and Levi jeans alone will not do that.

THL

In less than 5 seconds my mouth dropped open with a partial smirk, then changed to a look of disgust as I realized and got a visual of what I just read.

Tronic

LMAO!!! Just curious... didn't the snakes do any damage, while being used as "dildo's"??? lol... just curious...

And one thing that comes to my mind is... how the heck is she going to convince the government to count this as a legal marriage?????? lol... the government's already been banging it's head around on the issue of gay marriage... but now... animal marriage???????????? lol...

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Tronic

here's some more wierd marriages:


Horse
It is often said that the Roman Emperor Caligula both married his horse Incitatus, and appointed it to the Senate.
In some parts of Celtic Ireland, kings (often called "sacred kings") had to wed the local goddess of the land. A druidess was usually chosen to represent the land goddess as the king's wife, but one king in Donegal married a horse, a representative of their local goddess. [1]
May 1998 - The Jerry Springer Show produced an episode titled "I married a horse". The show was ultimately not aired by many stations on the planned date, apparently due to concerns about the acceptability of broadcasting an episode in which a man admitted to a long term emotional and sexual relationship of this kind. The man and his horse later participated in a British documentary on the subject.

Dog
June 2003 - a nine year old Indian girl of the Santal (or 'Santhal') tribe of Khanyhan, near Calcutta was formally married to a dog, in order to ward off a bad omen. The wedding was attended by more than 100 guests, who danced to the beating of drums and drank home-made liquor. The girl told Western press, "I have no regret in marrying the dog Bacchan. I am fond of the dog who moves around our locality," and tribal elders added she was free to remarry in future as an adult. [3]
This is apparently not uncommon; a second case of a four year old girl of the same tribe was reported the same month in Jharkhand. The mother stated, "To remove the evil eye on Tannu, I had to marry my daughter to a dog." A local reportedly explained, "If the child is born with joint teeth, it's a sign of bad omen which harms the fortunes of the child. So, a girl who takes out joint teeth is bound to marry a dog ... We are performing all the rituals that take place in a real marriage. We perform all rituals with full enjoyment and commitment." The tradition is that a baby girl gets married to a dog and baby boy to a young cat. Traditional marriage customs and celebrations are the same as for real marriages.
February 2004 - a 75 year old man from Kathmandu Nepal married a dog "in a local custom" of his Tharu community, attended by his son and other relatives.

Dolphin
December 2005 - 41 year old Sharon Tendler of Great Britain unofficially married Cindy, a male dolphin held at the Dolphin Reef dolphinarium in Eilat, Israel, in a ceremony where she offered fish and the dolphin 'kissed' her. She had been visiting Cindy regularly for the past 15 years. Tendler requested permission from the dolphin's trainer for the "wedding". The marriage, painted romantically by the media, was in her words considered "a bit of fun" after her friends joked about her being single at that age.


Goat
February 2006 - a Sudanese man caught having sex with a neighbour's goat, was ordered by the council of elders to pay the neighbour a dowry of 5,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) and marry the animal. [6] Lmao!!! this is the most gross and the most hilarious thing ever heard...


Snake
June 2006 - an Indian woman from Bhubaneswar, Orissa, who "who fell in love with a snake", married the reptile at a "traditional Hindu wedding celebrated by 2,000 guests". She claimed a bond of understanding of a kind existed between the two. The woman had previously been ill, and recovered upon offering the snake milk, during which time she fell in love. She later "converted to the animal-loving vegetarian Vaishnav sect whose local elders gave her permission to marry the cobra." [7]

THL

I dont think it matters if the government sees this as a legal marriage or not - its not as though he has a pension she is going to want to get her hands on when he dies. And how is she going to explain to him that he cannot get it on with others in his species now?

OH GOD!! Imagine what their kids will look like!!

Jay

And yeah its a current affairs news that everyone is interested in!

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THL

If you thought that was so funny, I remembered this story from a while back and looked it up for you - this poor horse was violated and did not even get to marry the SOB.

Tronic

lol... crazy world...

Gabru47

I've heard that this cobra is giving inspiration to millions of lonely men around the world. If he can do it then anyone can.

THL

Oh lovely....more psychos to come out of their black holes and find my back porch...I cant wait