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Thread ID: 7476 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2003-06-19
2003-06-19 13:20 | User Profile
9-Year-Old Girl Marries Dog in India 1 hour, 25 minutes ago Add AP - Feature Stories to My Yahoo!
NEW DELHI, India - A 9-year-old girl was married to a stray dog in a ceremony attended by more than 100 guests in a village in India's eastern state of Bengal as part of a ritual intended to ward off a bad omen, newspapers reported Thursday.
The girl, Karnamoni Handsa, had to be married quickly to break an evil spell, according to the beliefs of her Santhal tribe in the remote village of Khanyan, the Hindustan Times said.
Karnamoni's tooth had grown on her upper gum, which Santhals consider a bad omen.
The girl's father, Baburam Handsa, a poor sharecropper, could not afford the expenses of marrying his daughter to a boy, so he saved money by making a street dog the groom on June 11, the paper reported.
Other news media also reported on the ritual, which does not interfere with the girl's life. She suffers no stigma and is free to marry later. She doesn't even need to divorce the dog.
Where has Rban been lately? I hope his wife doesn't have distemper or the mange.
2003-06-19 19:45 | User Profile
I was told he had been banned.
He's probably screaming "Anti-Hindite scum!" at the monitor right now.
2003-06-19 23:23 | User Profile
Where is rbanowitz when you need him?
2003-06-19 23:27 | User Profile
churbanowitz must be spitting urine on his keyboard and choking on cow-dung cakes while reading this :lol:
2003-06-20 00:03 | User Profile
You can't blame an ambitious girl for marrying up.