{"id":1562,"date":"2013-03-16T13:58:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T13:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/16\/charmed-woman-marries-snake-in-india\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T16:13:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T15:13:36","slug":"charmed-woman-marries-snake-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/charmed-woman-marries-snake-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Charmed woman marries snake in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>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&#8217;s Orissa state, reports said.<br><\/strong> <strong><br>Bimbala Das wore a silk saree for the ceremony Wednesday at Atala village near the Orissa state capital Bhubaneswar.<br><\/strong> <strong><br>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.<br>A brass replica snake stood in for the hesitant groom.<br><\/strong> <strong><br>&#8220;Though snakes cannot speak nor understand, we communicate in a peculiar way,&#8221; Das, 30, told the agency. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong> &#8220;Whenever I put milk near the ant hill where the cobra lives, it always comes out to drink.<br><\/strong> <strong><br>&#8220;I always get to see it every time I go near the ant hill. It has never harmed me,&#8221; she added.<br><\/strong> <strong><br>Villagers welcomed the wedding in the belief it would bring good fortune and laid on a feast for the big day.<br><\/strong> <strong><br>Snakes and particularly the King Cobra are venerated in India as religious symbols worn by Lord Shiva, the god of destruction.<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>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&#8217;s largest venomous snake that can grow up to five metres.<br>&#8220;I am happy,&#8221; said her mother Dyuti Bhoi, who has two other daughters and two sons to marry off.<br><\/strong> <strong><br>&#8220;Bimbala was ill,&#8221; Bhoi told local OTV channel. &#8220;We had no money to treat her. Then she started offering milk to the snake &#8230; she was cured. That made her fall in love.&#8221;<br><\/strong> <strong><br>Das has moved into a hut built close to the ant hill since the wedding.<br>Earlier this year, a tribal girl was married off to a dog on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who fell in love with a snake has married the reptile at a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,56],"tags":[1893,68,1739,1820,1894,300],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creazyworld","category-news","tag-charmed","tag-in","tag-india","tag-marries","tag-snake","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}