== Serpent worship == 

 I recently reverted this edit, which had the summary "Removed the dravidian custom reference since the referenced book does not bear the statements that has been cited. Please do not revert without confirmation. The snake worship is a Nair custom and not a general dravidian custom." 

 I had not entered that statement or source but it took all of a minute to find that, whether or not the issue is mentioned on page 112 of the source (as originally cited), it is definitely mentioned on page 85. I cannot see page 112 to confirm or deny, so I simply reinstated the thing using the alternate page number. To be honest, I would have thought that someone as interested in Nairs as the remover clearly is would have known that this custom is not limited to that community. Other south Indian communities - including the Ezhavas that seemingly every Nair knows of - follow the practice. Sometimes it pays to do a little research on related articles, such as Snake worship, to see if citations can be found before deleting something from an article that has received extensive scrutiny over the last year or so. -