Originally posted by Tourige:
Originally posted by ??ber Evil Mushu!:
I vote for the lady who married a King Cobra last week.



i want the story on this



Why would you doubt me?


Saturday, June 03, 2006

Charmed woman marries cobra in India

A woman who fell in love with a snake has married the reptile at a traditional Hindu wedding celebrated by 2,000 guests in Indiaâ??s Orissa state, 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. â??Though snakes cannot speak nor understand, we communicate in a peculiar way,â? Das, 30, told the agency. â??Whenever I put milk near the ant hill where the cobra lives, it always comes out to drink. â??I always get to see it every time I go near the ant hill. It has never harmed me,â? 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 worldâ??s largest venomous snake that can grow up to five metres. â??I am happy,â? said her mother Dyuti Bhoi, who has two other daughters and two sons to marry off. â??Bimbala was ill,â? Bhoi told local OTV channel. â??We had no money to treat her. Then she started offering milk to the snake ... she was cured. That made her fall in love.â?

Suck it Trebek! And by Trebek I mean Seaegee!