I came across this the other day , took this excerpt from a news website,

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

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.

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

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wow whats going on !!!!

Anythin' can happen in India and anythin' can be expected outta it .. where people r less hardworkin' and more superstitiouz these thingz r common ... I've come across so many weird thingz like this and wat we Indiaz fail to realize is that thingz like this don't do or bring us any good but would become a cause for mockery by the westernerz .... Bein' another IndiaN i just cannot accept stupid thingz like this ... i think itz da height of ridicule

wtf ... stupid indians

Dumb

Marrying animals, trees, etc. Probably, there is shortage for humans. Ridiculous.

Not every Indian is like that dude .. it ain't right that u generalize today if u look around the most successful people around the world today r Indianz ... India's economy has the hightest growth rate today in the world ..(8%).. considerin' the fact itz unlike da other third world countries like Bangladesh, Srilanka and parts of Africa India is the only country from where people don't go to any other countries as asylees. Especially to da US, UK and parts of Europe. Think 'bout India dude .. itz the second highest populated country with the most vibrant culture thatz spannin' for over 7 thousand yrz .. now tell me in a country which is so old wouldn't there be a lil' bit of population who belive in some kinda superstitionz ??? I guess right ... anwayz .... no offence meant ..

wer is dis world goin ??