On the festival of Nag-Panchmi the Mahars make an image of a snake with flour and sugar and eat it.

It is reported that the Singrore Dhimars who work on rivers and tanks must eat the flesh of a crocodile at their weddings, while the Sonjharas who wash the sands of rivers for gold should catch a live crocodile for the occasion of the wedding and afterwards put it back into the river.

These latter customs may probably have fallen into abeyance owing to the difficulty of catching a crocodile, and in any case the animals are tribal gods rather than totems.
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Terms of relationship.
Exogamy and totemism are found not only in India, but are the characteristics of primitive social groups over the greater part of the world.

Totemism establishes a relation of kinship between persons belonging to one clan who are not related by blood, and exogamy prescribes that the persons held to be so related shall not intermarry.