Girl Marries Dog: Indian Tribal Ritual to Ward Off Tigers

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A girl in eastern India was married to a dog in a tribal ceremony aimed at warding off tigers, as reported by the Press Trust of India. This unusual ritual was performed due to the girl's dental abnormalities, which were believed to increase her risk of being attacked by a tiger. The event took place with local customs, including drumming, in a slum near Bhubaneswar. Participants speculated about the symbolic nature of the marriage, questioning whether it was legally binding or merely a cultural practice. The discussion also touched on the bizarre nature of such rituals, comparing them to other unusual marriage stories from India, and highlighted the media's tendency to sensationalize these events. Participants expressed skepticism about the logic behind the ritual and the implications for the girl involved, while some noted that similar strange customs exist in various cultures worldwide.
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Thanks, Ba. Your current event topic should be quite a hoot in English class! I've always loved those News of the Weird type of stories.
 
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You folks are making too big a deal of this ! :eek: How much more progressive can you ask a culture to get, eh ? :rolleyes: Isn't this, after all, your average Christian conservative's worst nightmare ? :wink: (no ill intended to any average Christian conservatives here)
 
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From Ba's link
The marriage ceremony was facilitated by Utkal Bikash Mancha, an NGO which works among tribals in the state. Justifying the marriage, an office-bearer of the NGO said they were trying to preserve the primitive culture of the tribals through the ceremony.
 
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man, these kinds of articles sicken me, this happened so long ago, but it is so blown up that now almost anyone who reads it will think that all little girls in India are married to dogs.. Some fools in a little remote village act according to their ancestral beliefs and it is blasted out in the media.. These kinds of things happen in almost every country, by that I mean weird things like this, just today a woman got arrested in the US for selling her daughter for a car and forcing her 11 year old daughter to have sex, now why doesn't anyone post that here? Go to CNN if you don't believe me...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/13/daughters.sold.ap/index.html

I would rather have someone act foolishly and just "marry" their daughter to a dog, of course she will marry a man later, than someone selling their daughter to a man for a car and forcing their little child to prostitute..
 
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