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| Chamreun, left, and her new husband Krong Pich (Photo: AFP) |
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KANDAL, Cambodia — Hundreds of Cambodians on Monday celebrated an unusual wedding ceremony -- for a pair of pythons -- who they believe will bring good luck to their villages.
The marriage of serpent bride Chamreun to groom, Krong Pich, was held in Village One in Kandal province, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of the capital Phnom Penh, and attracted nearly 1,000 people, according to witnesses.
"We organised the wedding ceremony for the pythons in order to oust bad things and bring good luck and happiness for our villages," said 41-year-old Neth Vy, Chamreun's owner.
Neth Vy said his family had raised Chamreun in their home since 1994, after the then finger-sized snake got caught in his fishing net in a lake.
He said Chamreun had gone missing for over a month but was found a week ago, at the same time people in his neighbouring village caught a male python, which they named Krong Pich.
Old villagers decided to wed the two pythons after a boy, who was believed to be spirit-possessed, said Krong Pich wanted to marry Chamreun, or "people in the villages will suffer illnesses and bad luck," Neth Vy told AFP.
He said some fortune tellers had also appealed for the marriage between the pythons in order to bring "good luck and harmony for the people in the villages".
"So we held the wedding ceremony for the pythons with blessings from Buddhist monks, in accordance with our tradition," he said.
Many people offered money and prayed after the pythons were placed in the same cage following the religious ceremony.
"It surprised me. Since I was born I have never seen snakes get married," said Penh Kong, a 56-year-old vendor, while admired the happy couple.
Many Cambodians are highly superstitious, particularly in the countryside where people continue to merge animist practices with Buddhism.
9 comments:
Just crazy like ah Kwack!
This is nothing but a scam.
Should Buddish monk incourage this kind of ignorance??????
What the Suppreme Buddash say! OK as long as not a politic against Vietnammese motherfucker!?!
it's no stranger in cambodia. this echoes the khmer folklore, pos kaeng kang movie. it's only the belief that makes the movie interesting. go see it!
Thank for the pet lovers.
The human beings are in the animal groups too.
The pet lover owners
love their pets so much.Some people in some countries,
they celebrated their pet lovers also.
These Khmer lovely pet owners get married their pets so strange for Khmer people,but in abroad,not strange at all.When their pets were dead,they built a beautiful for them.
These python owners could draw 1,000 guests to celebrate them.
These pythons are so lucky animals than some people,they never got married;they just lived together without married all the rest of their lives.
They should believe that Vietnamese is going to take over Cambodia rather than believe in this sort of shit.
No wonder we lost our land to the Thai and the Viet.
Come on Khmer people wake up, please .....
in some western country, they dress their dogs or pets like people, that is more strange to cambodian people than this, i tink!
I think these snakes are Vietnamese bad luck snakes. When they have babies after babies; like 10,000,000 of them, then each one of them at a set time will choke the life out of the Khmer people. Imagine that?
Why these people so stupidity these days? I would chop up this snakes, marinade with red curry, coconut milk, and cook the damn thing on CHHNANG PLEUNG and Khlem Sra Hennessey bitch!! Khmers people should stop being dumbass, jackass like back in Angkorian era! This is why cambodia shrink into small piece on the world map til today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Woke UP!!!!!!!!!!
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