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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Hmmmm....I wonder what the offspring will look like.

can't even understand how stuff like this makes news. must've been a REAL slow news day

how do they know its even a male
i heard the only way to find out a snakes sex was to kill it...

I heard that Snakes not only have forked tongues but forked penises as well

where did you hear that

I bought a book titled "How do animals do it" quite some time ago. And it was mentioned, lol

Come on man, Is that really the point, all I know is it must have had some good game

The easiest way is to count the number of ventral scales from the clocoa to the tail


Correct. The real terminology is hemipenes.

lol whata joke... i bet the honeymoon is going to be off the HOOK!

Womans IQ very low. That is just beyond stupid.

It's just some cultural thingy that we will never understand fully.

So she is sick gives this snake milk and believes it healed her so she married it....
She says it never hurt her. I bet she never got close to it.
If she tried to I bet her new spouse would be the death of her!

Hell I feed stray cats and dogs all the time but I dont think they do anything for me except mabye keep the rodent and lizzard population down around the house.

Alot of cultures do have some strange beliefs!

I wonder what the dog did for the other woman to make her want to marry him.....I bet it was an sex thing!!

I wonder what kind of dog it was Chihuahua .. I doubt it...more like a Great dane!

Do snakes undertand marriage? When it does it will probably bite her.

How did the snake say "I do"?

Wrong section, this shouldn't be front page news LOL.

Not marraige in the literal sense; it's just some cultural ceremony that some people perform, believing that it will bring them good luck; dumb thinking though. These kind of things mostly happen in the uneducated class of some really remote villages in India.

I am their neighbor and all i know that indian village people are 100% crazy...

u know what that they don't even know what TV is...they are waaaaaaaaaaaaay behind...

Oh yes, and all the Islamic fanatics in your country are perfectly sane too


Your idea of a joke? Seriously, which city in Bangladesh are you from? Please enlighten this world on how incredibly advanced Bangladesh is? For some reason, most people are not even aware of it

I would like to say something im pretty offended by what the guy from bangladesh said ok i was born in america but my parents are from south india and i feal that just because one crazy indian goes and marys a snake does not mean that we are crazy ok

oh and something else india is not way behind we are one of the most technalogicly advanced countrys on earth and another thing Bangladesh is way behind and should not be talking

Bone Collector is right...This is not a true marriage, but a ceremony to bring luck. Just like how cobras are allowed to live inside temples.

When my dad was growing up in India, he had a 15 foot King Cobra live inside his house for 7 years.

Yes, the remark by Graylady was uneccesary and rude. please do not make those comments in the future. As you can see, I am Indian.

this is so awesome , i dont even know where to begin . i mean who cares if it is a male , i mean can thier be interspeices homoseuals? i mean really dont be so closed minded

...Sarcasm?

who cares where she is from thats just nasty!I'm sure theres someone here in the U.S that are that stupid too.Wasn't there a guy who was very lonely here somewhere in the U.S. who wanted permission to marry a goat?

My mistake i think it was somewhere in Sudan..