http://hindustantimes.com/news/181_1711610,00110002.htm

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"Charmed woman marries snake ! Agence France-Presse Bhubaneswar, June 2, 2006 A woman who fell in love with a snake has married the reptile at a traditional Hindu wedding celebrated by 2,000 guests in Orissa, reports said Friday. 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."

[Edited on June 3, 2006 at 9:13 PM. Reason : adf]

6/3/2006 9:13:02 PM

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=412611

6/3/2006 9:15:30 PM

She should put the snake on a plane...

6/3/2006 9:18:26 PM

bestiality?

6/4/2006 2:34:48 AM

how the fuck do you marry a snake?

please dear god for the love of tww quote me on that

6/4/2006 3:04:17 AM

i wonder who'll be on top

6/4/2006 3:23:59 AM

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"how the fuck do you marry a snake?"

6/4/2006 10:29:23 AM

"marry" is less a physical act than it is a social contract

6/4/2006 12:59:57 PM

we need esgargs

6/4/2006 2:17:55 PM

If the gays have it their way, soon you will be reading articles like this about America!!

6/4/2006 2:25:55 PM

Snakes have two weiners, if that explains anything.

6/4/2006 3:34:00 PM

^It actually raises more questions

6/4/2006 4:32:55 PM

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

6/4/2006 7:34:42 PM

I know many women who have made vows to MY snake

6/4/2006 7:59:36 PM

At least the snake wasn't gay. Now THERE'S an abomination !!

6/4/2006 8:08:22 PM

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

At least she's likely to see some action...

6/4/2006 9:13:21 PM

They can marry dogs and snakes, but don't you fucking dare let them drive a car.

6/4/2006 9:26:20 PM

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"They can marry dogs and snakes, but don't you fucking dare let them drive a car."

winnar!!!

6/4/2006 9:31:13 PM

i am a good driver!

6/4/2006 10:53:37 PM

What kind of dowry did she put up for the snake?

6/4/2006 11:08:28 PM

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"The cobra is going to realize what happened eventually. Then he'll decide he wants to be a widower and bite her on the toe while she is sleeping. "I gave no consent to this shit", the snake will say to the angry villagers who want his head. "Tis the truth", the dead wife's mother will say. "I hold no ill will toward this snake." The villagers will relent where he will slither off to another nearby village and some other dumbass girl will fall in love with him."

6/4/2006 11:23:17 PM

Marriage works differently in other cultures than it does here. I'm not saying this isn't out of the ordinary.

However, there are some cultures where they marry trees together.

OMG what's next? homosexuals?!?!

6/5/2006 5:32:43 AM

I'll be the first to say it.... What the Fuck? This will work out well until the cobra and the woman get in a fight.... I can see the headlines now...

"Domestic Dispute leads to wife's death, Cobra to be charged"

6/5/2006 2:19:39 PM

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

That's what I want my wife to say about me one day.

6/5/2006 2:45:43 PM

6/5/2006 3:06:23 PM

dear lord

6/5/2006 4:23:46 PM