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Nag Panchami

The day for honouring snakes, with milk and flowers offered at anthills and snake images.

Naag Pooja in Lalitpur District in Nepal.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Krish Dulal assumed (based on cop, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

About Nag Panchami

Nag Panchami falls on the fifth day of the bright half of Shravana, in the monsoon, when snakes come out of flooded burrows. Devotees draw nagas on the walls of their homes with turmeric or cow dung, or visit shrines and anthills to offer milk, rice and flowers, hoping for protection from snakebite and for family wellbeing. In many households, digging, ploughing and frying are avoided on the day, so as not to harm snakes. Offering milk to live snakes is a harm to them, and snake charmers' display of captive cobras is illegal in India under the Wildlife Protection Act, yet it persists in places. In Shirala, Maharashtra, villagers have been known for a custom involving live cobras, now legally restricted.

Entries tied to it

Snake worshipThe wider tradition of serpent veneration.Snake charmingThe practice, now legally restricted in India.

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Written by the EveryJaadu desk with AI assistance. Background: "Naga Panchami" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family, and are described as belief and practice. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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