Let’s hope the marriage prevents the predicted Tiger attack on the child. After all, this is the reason the child is being married off to a dog? What is not clear from the article is what happens if the dog dies and the child becomes a widower?
**A toddler has reportedly been married off to a dog in eastern India in a bid to prevent his predicted death by a tiger. **
The ceremony, at a Hindu temple in Orissa state’s Jajpur district,was conducted with all the rituals observed at traditional weddings. It included a dowry for the bride - the village …
The dog sported two silver rings and a silver chain, the UNI news agency reported.
Parents of the groom, 18-month-old Sangula, were advised to arrange the marriage when they noticed a tooth growing from their infant son’s upper gum.
The growth was considered to be a bad omen in the boy’s tribal community.
Village elders believed it would lead to him being killed in a tiger attack - a fate preventable, according to tribal tradition, by marrying a dog.
Sanrumula Munda, Sangula’s father, said the ceremony would not stop him from marrying properly when he comes of age.
Superstition is still a potent force in tribal and remote communities of India.
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this is why Allah laid the duty upon every Muslim to do Tableegh so that narrow and twisted minded people find the truth about this and don't live in disgusting Traditions. How many kids will be married to animals? When will this bestiality stop?
Everyone will be pointing his finger at him and say he was married to a dog, even though his father wants to marry him to a woman later on. I ask myself how this baby will take the story when people will tell him you have been married to a dog to prevent your death!
Why didn't the elders marry the dog? Or the father?
Re: Indian Toddler Weds Dog To Avoid Indian Tiger Doom.
This is a very odd tradition to me and to most of us here. But there are all kinds of traditions and ceremonies which outsiders find disturbing. Obviously, there arent any "conjugal relations" involved in such a "marriage" - it is a ceremonial marriage meant to link the two souls of dog and child in order to protect the child from a perceived threat. I've read here about "black magic" and curses...every culture has its fears, curses and different ways of handling them. Hindus find some Muslim traditions to be disgusting and going against "God"...slaughtering a cow to them is murder of something sacred yeah? There are tribes in New Guinea who practice a kind of cannibalism - at the death of a loved one, they consume a small portion of their loved one so ensure that the soul lives on. There are countless other examples I could give...but the point is that different cultures have different practices. You dont have to like them or agree with them but being respectful of them is what the world needs much more of.
