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1. Festival of the Snake - Nag Panchami
India shares a very old bond with snakes. These frightening beings have played a prominent rolethroughout Indian mythology and folklore. India is known to many still, as the Land Of Snake Charmers. Till date, the fifth day of the lunar month of Shravan is celebrated as Nag Panchami across India and Nepal. Live Cobras, without their venomous fangs removed, are worshipped! Priests sprinkle haldi-kumkum and flower petals on their raised hoods. Devoteesfeed them milk and even rats. It is popularly believed that snakes do not bite on Nag Panchami .
India shares a very old bond with snakes. These frightening beings have played a prominent rolethroughout Indian mythology and folklore. India is known to many still, as the Land Of Snake Charmers. Till date, the fifth day of the lunar month of Shravan is celebrated as Nag Panchami across India and Nepal. Live Cobras, without their venomous fangs removed, are worshipped! Priests sprinkle haldi-kumkum and flower petals on their raised hoods. Devoteesfeed them milk and even rats. It is popularly believed that snakes do not bite on Nag Panchami .
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