Magic pythons' married to bring luck
Hundreds of villagers in Svay Rolum, Cambodia have flocked to a wedding ceremony between a 16-foot (4.8-metre), 200-pound (90-kilogram) female python and her slightly smaller snake mate.
Fortunetellers believe the pythons are magic snakes that bring prosperity and peace to the village.
The two-hour ceremony on Monday ended with two Buddhist monks blessing the snake couple as villagers showered them with flowers and wedding music played.
Cambodians, who are mostly Buddhists, also subscribe to animism - a belief that spirits can inhabit all sorts of living and inanimate objects.
Whenever an odd animal makes an appearance, it is cause for the superstitious to celebrate.
Source: AP
Published Jan 3 2011
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