Man marries pet snake he believes is his reincarnated dead girlfriend

An unidentified heartbroken man from Singapore has allegedly married his pet snake because he believes his dead girlfriend reincarnated as a cobra.

The man is said to have been devastated when his girlfriend passed away five years ago but recovered from the loss when he saw a snake with a ''striking resemblance'' to his former girlfriend which he believed was his girl friend who had come back to life as the serpent - which follows the Buddhist idea that people can be reincarnated as animals.

The man now spends his everyday life with the 10ft long cobra, including watching TV together, sharing romantic picnics by the lake, playing board games and going to the gym as a couple.