The Western culture is no stranger to superstition,
especially during a wedding. Most brides would sooner set fire to the
church and postpone the ceremony than to get married without something
old, new, borrowed and blue. And don’t even think about trying to catch a
glimpse of your wife-to-be before the nuptials or that’s 3 stitches to
the temple right there on the spot.
But the Santhal tribe in India decided to
one-up us all and cranked the wedding-crazy dial all the way up to 11.
They believe that if a baby girl has a tooth rooted to her upper gum,
it’s the obvious sign she will be eaten by a tiger or something in the
near future, because ghosts hate her.
Therefore, she must marry a dog.
Such was the story of Karnamoni Handsa, a 9-year-old Indian girl who
“married” the local stray Bacchan amidst the dancing and cheers of her
100 guests getting shitfaced on home-made booze. Huh… Somehow the
presence of moonshine in a cross-species wedding is not surprising in
the least…
The good news is, this is nothing but a
mock ceremony and the couple don’t have to consummate the wedding. It’s
just to ward off the evil spirits so the girl can marry a real boy some
time later.
Thank God, otherwise this exorcism ritual between a child
and a canine would have been really weird.
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