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Girl marries dog to ward off evil
Sydney Morning Herald ^
| June 19 2003
Posted on 6/18/2003, 2:42:25 PM by dead
A nine-year-old girl was married off to a dog in the presence of more than 100 people in eastern India under a tribal custom to protect the child from evil.
Karnamoni Hasda wedded the street dog last week in West Bengal state's Hooghly district in a common practice among the Santhal tribe, the Press Trust of India news agency said yesterday, quoting local officials.
According to Santhal belief, if a child's first tooth appears on the upper gum he or she is in grave danger that can only be warded off by a marriage with man's best friend.
The child can remarry a human after growing up.
The report said Karnamoni's canine marriage did not take place immediately after her first tooth appeared because her father's financial problems did not allow for a wedding at the time.
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posted on
6/18/2003, 2:42:25 PM
by
dead
To: dead
:O
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posted on
6/18/2003, 2:44:55 PM
by
Laura Earl
(It's the ASPARTAME!!!!!!)
To: Dog
(((((PING)))))
Um you didn't invite me to your wedding!!! HUMPH!!!
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posted on
6/18/2003, 2:45:10 PM
by
areafiftyone
(The U.N. needs a good Flush!)
To: dead
I have a question about this marriage... on second thought, nevermind.
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posted on
6/18/2003, 2:45:45 PM
by
Snowy
(My golden retriever can lick your honor student)
To: dead
Was it the canine tooth that came through first? :^P
Prairie
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posted on
6/18/2003, 2:46:12 PM
by
prairiebreeze
(The "Religion of Peace" says it's OK to kill your daughter if you think she's behaved shamefully.)
To: dead
I've dated a few dogs...
To: dead
Just when you you think democRATs can't possibly get any stranger....
To: Snowy
Hi Snowy! How's Spencer this fine morning? Our Spencer is getting stronger by the day, and BIGGER! He's an angel of a dog, except that when he sees a strange dog, he goes balistic. Hoping we can break that habit.
Cheers!
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posted on
6/18/2003, 2:47:51 PM
by
EggsAckley
( "Aspire to Mediocracy"..........new motto for publik skools....)
To: dead
Was there a doggie dowrey?
Can this merital union be anulled?
If so, will he have to support the pups?
If she say to, will he have to fetch?
Will he have to roll over on que?
If he does will she scratch his tummy?
These and other questions will be ansered in the New York Times. But not to worry, the lies will be revealed in time... writer designated later to be jetesoned.
To: Snowy
LMAO!!!!
To: dead
Paging Senator Rick Santorum....will Senator Rick Santorum please pick up the red courtesy phone.
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posted on
6/18/2003, 2:51:58 PM
by
mr.pink
To: areafiftyone
Oh I see; she wanted to ward off X42.
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posted on
6/18/2003, 2:53:02 PM
by
PISANO
To: dead
What??
No pictures??
13
posted on
6/18/2003, 2:53:13 PM
by
BlueNgold
(Feed the Tree .....)
To: dead
If the Clinton's can do it..why not her....joke
14
posted on
6/18/2003, 2:53:58 PM
by
OREALLY
To: Jemian
Lost sheep ping.
To: dead
There are really some strange beliefs at the rural village level in India, and people really are quite ignorant. Two stories....
(1) I knew a guy who managed a tea plantation there. His older brother had lived in Canada for a number of years and so lost the immunity to the local bacteria in the water. When the brother returned for a visit, the mother directed the servants to boil a bunch of water and fill some jars with it. This way the brother would have pure water to drink during his visit. Anyway, the tea plantation manager walked in and found the servants "topping off" the jars with tap water. They had no understanding of the reason why they were performing the actions they were directed to do.
(2) One of the workers on the tea plantation was from Bangledesh. They (people from his village in Bangledesh) believed that the way a woman became pregnant was to sit on a log in the moonlight of a full moon -- she would be blessed by the moon godess or something. Anyway, this guy had been working on the tea plantation for 2 years straight, sending his money back to his wife. One day he comes in with cigars to celebrate the birth of his second child - both conceived while he was gone during this 2 year period. This guy had no clue what his wife was doing or how she got pregnant.
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posted on
6/18/2003, 2:55:28 PM
by
dark_lord
(The Statue of Liberty now holds a baseball bat and she's yelling 'You want a piece of me?')
To: Bisesi
One good nip and its all over for BUBBA!!!
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posted on
6/18/2003, 2:55:56 PM
by
areafiftyone
(The U.N. needs a good Flush!)
To: dead
... and some people (Liberals) wonder aloud why Third World Savagries just can't compete with the West...
To: dead
India has nukes.
To: dead
I thought James Carville was already married
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posted on
6/18/2003, 3:00:03 PM
by
ZGuy
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