A pair of snakes showing up on a grave have drawn big crowds of curious people who quickly turned into a group of devoted worshippers that authorities in the central province of Quang Binh have struggled to dismiss.
The snakes were first spotted crawling on a roadside grave in Quang Van Commune on February 24. After noticing that they were still staying on the grave a few days later, some locals started believing that the snakes are gods and set up an altar, together with a box for cash offerings.
Thousands of people from nearby communes and districts soon started flocking to the grave to witness the "snake gods" and pray to them for luck and prosperity, causing traffic jam on the nearby road. Locals also set up a pavilion over the grave to home the worshippers who have come every day from 7 a.m. to past midnight.
Local authorities attempted to clear the crowds by cutting electricity to the site and sending staff to dismantle the pavilion on Friday morning. The attempt failed as a group of locals fiercely resisted, and the grave remained untouched by the afternoon.
Police and forest rangers came back on Saturday morning and this time they managed to remove the pavillion. One snake had died on Thursday, and the forest rangers caught the other one, saying they will make sure it is treated according to the laws and protected if it belongs to a rare species.
The snakes of nearly one-meter (3.3-foot) looked like water snakes and did not react to the presence of the large crowd, locals said.
Tran Van Trong, chairman of Quang Van Commune, said the grave belongs to a beggar believed to have died during the French colonial era many decades ago. It lies next to a pond of water, and was renovated by locals a few years ago.
"Locals used to burn incense at the grave sometimes. But the appearance of the two snakes has escalated that into something superstitious," Trong said.
Officials have sent police officers to the site to maintain public order while waiting for further instructions from their superiors. The money box, which had more than VND200 million ($8,800) as of Friday, would meanwhile be managed by some local seniors.
Vietnamese people preserve a worshipping tradition which commemorates the dead and the spirits. Sometimes, what seems to be a beautiful act of remembrance goes beyond the boundary of common sense.
Last month, hundreds of people flocked to a river in the central province of Nghe An to pray to a "fish god." The fish was rumored to be a god after it was found staying at the same section of the river for days, displayed strange behaviors and did not die when some fishermen tried to kill it with electric shocks.
The rumor was however rejected when a fisherman successfully caught the fish with a net, and confirmed that it's just a common carp that had been injured.
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