Girl Weds Dog To Ward Off 'Evil Eye'

POSTED: 3:21 pm EST February 22, 2006

NEW DELHI -- A 7-year-old girl wed a stray dog as part of a ritual to
ward off the "evil eye" on her and her family in eastern India, a news
agency reported Wednesday.

Shivam Munda's upper teeth appeared before her lower teeth - considered
a bad omen by members of the Santhal ethnic group to which she belongs,
the Press Trust of India said in a report from Dhanbad, a coal mining
town in the eastern state of Bihar.

Kundan Munda, a coal mine worker, said his daughter married the dog
only to "remove the evil eye," a superstitious belief that some
misfortune could befall her and the family, and that she would be free
to marry a man later.

Friends and family participated in three days of traditional ceremonies
and festivities that are part of a Santhal tribal marriage, Munda said,
according to the report."

In a few years they're going to have to divide his collection of old
bones and chewed rope in half.
To get a divorce the dog will have to prove she made him sleep outside
for a year.
If she wanted to marry someone hairy and dirty who stays out all
night, what's wrong with a
musician.
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