Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Children marry Pups

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Earlier there was a story from southern India where a 33-year-old man in Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu had Married a dog in a bid to ward off the "curse" of a canine couple he had killed 15 years ago. Now here is a story of Children getting married to puppies!!!!

As per sify.com "Three boys and two girls were married to puppies in the superstition that it would ward off evil at this remote tribal-dominated village in Jharkhand's Saraikela-Kharswan district today.

Salu Banra, the mother of one of the girls, 15-year-old Puspa, a student of class seven in a government school, said, "This is a custom. We set the puppy free after the marriage."

The upper tooth appearing in either a girl or a boy is considered inauspicious by the Ho tribe which lives in this village. "Marriage to puppies of the opposite gender gets rid of the evil," said some of the other villagers.

They said that six marriages between puppies and boys and girls had taken place."
Read more...................Children marry pups to keep evil at bay

Picture Credit: free-sk.t-com.hr (Puppies in the picture are not the one's who got married)

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