The first tale is about the Manasa ceremony where the goddess Padma and her reptilian brood, as all her children are snakes. A young wife of a farmer is sad because she has no family to return to for holidays. She finds some young koi fish in a small puddle and pick them up and take them home. These fish turn into snakes and she takes care of them. For this care they take care of her and in the end earn a place for her in the kings castle as an almost royal family member.
The second is the Savitri Ceremony in which a married woman places an earthen jar at the foot of a banyan tree and Savitri is suppose to animate it. If the woman does the ceremony right, she will never lose her husband much like Savitri when she followed death when he tried to take her husband away.
The third is the Itu Ceremony. The tale associated with this showed how by worshipping Itu he could provide wealth and happiness, but if they forgot to worship him they would hit rock bottom and be back right where they started before worshipping him.
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