Woman marries a Cobra...

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BHUBANESWAR, India (AFP) - 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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060602/od_afp/afplifestyleindia_060602155817

:rolleyes:


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For the record not all Indians marry reptiles. :rolleyes:

But that one was ROFLOMFG :LOL:
 
99.vikram said:
For the record not all Indians marry reptiles. :rolleyes:

But that one was ROFLOMFG :LOL:


I doubt the men have those sorts of problem considering how hot indian women can be :eek:
 
So I actually played some half life 2 a few minutes a go and i'd have to say that I've played that game through so many time's that it's lost all it's glory. D:
 
theSteven said:
So I actually played some half life 2 a few minutes a go and i'd have to say that I've played that game through so many time's that it's lost all it's glory. D:
Wrong thread?
 
Snakes don't like getting married. They always try and think of a way to wriggle out of it. Luckily he's venomous. Just wait, in a weeks time you're going to see her as dead on the news, becuase the snake has Adder for Breakfast.
 
dekstar said:
Snakes don't like getting married. They always try and think of a way to wriggle out of it. Luckily he's venomous. Just wait, in a weeks time you're going to see her as dead on the news, becuase the snake has Adder for Breakfast.

Oh, the puns!
 
I read this article elsewhere, and the funniest part was when she explained that he was too shy to come out of his anthill for the wedding, so they used a metal (bronze, I think) surrogate for the ceremony.
 
Adabiviak said:
I read this article elsewhere, and the funniest part was when she explained that he was too shy to come out of his anthill for the wedding, so they used a metal (bronze, I think) surrogate for the ceremony.


Could you use that in a human wedding with a surrogate metal woman instead?
 
Razor said:
Could you use that in a human wedding with a surrogate metal woman instead?
I think it would Tarnish the whole idea of a marriage.
Not sure if it's actually illegal though. I'm a bit Rusty on the laws. Maybe in Vegas!
 
this is weirder than the man who married his donkey in africa.
 
I feel real bad for her, not because she married a snake, because in like 5 years that snake is going to die and shell be very lonely ;(
 
When they go on a honeymoon do they take a flight to the location?

Snakes on a plane!
 
What happens if the Cobra bites her earlobes during teh honeymoon? ;)
 
I tried ****ing a snake... It didn't survive :/
 
Meh.

Woman marries snake.

Whatcha gonna do?
 
Razor said:
I doubt the men have those sorts of problem considering how hot indian women can be :eek:

im not a big fan of indian girls, but some of em are reallllly randomly super hot.
 
She'll be devastated when her husband dies before she does.

On the plus side, I really like alot of Indian women, depending on if they're up to snuff with normal 'human' attractiveness. A nice indian woman can be very exotic and sexy. Plus, that tilaka can be exotic and sexy as well, sometimes.
 
What? The cobra is the hot and sexy one.

Right?

Right?
 
Marrying a Cobra?

Would it file for divorce, or just kill her?
 
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