A teenager has been forced to marry a dog

Sunnyisland

http://www.sundayworld.com/top-stories/daily-world/teenager-forced-to-marry-dog


Mangli Munda, 18, from a remote village in eastern India, was told by her parents that she possessed bad luck and ordered to marry the canine to protect her from evil spells.

The dog, named Sheru, was brought to the lavish ceremony in a chauffeur driven car and married to the girl in front of 70 guests, reports Mirror.co.uk.

Mangil said: "I am marrying a dog because the village elders believe that my evil spell will be passed on to the dog.

"After that is done, the man I will marry will have a long life."

She added: "Many weddings like this have taken place in our village and also the other neighbouring villages. This is a custom that we thoroughly believe in."

"Apart from the fact that the groom is a dog, we followed all customs. We respect the dog as much as we would respect a normal groom," said Mangli's mother Seems Devi.

"We had to spend money on this wedding in the same way as we would in a normal wedding. But that is the only way we can get rid of her bad luck and ensure the benevolence of the village.



All the same it's a crazy world we live in,wouldn't ye think the dog would have more sense,it's just barking mad...

El Weirdo

Christ, The Sunday World quoting a story from The Mirror.

I'll be honest and admit that I didn't read the thing, but I imagine it's some top-notch journalism.

Banjo String

Doggy style / dogging puns should be inserted here:

TeddyTedson

Aw dogs are cute though.
Plenty of people have married dogs

Karl Stein

What a Catastrophe

NegativeCreep

Ehh how else would she keep the evil spells away?

The Backwards Man

I'd marry my dog if it meant she would stop jumping on me in my good clothes.

The Purveyor of Truth

Heard the dog was a durty fecker too. Night of the honeymoon he said: 'On your back bitch, I want it humanstyle'.

Lia_lia

I'd marry my dog if I could!

Roquentin

poor dog

Roquentin

i really hate that paper

YFlyer

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Ehh how else would she keep the evil spells away?

Could be a hound dog

The Backwards Man

Lia_lia wrote: »

I'd marry my dog if I could!

Your dog could marry my dog. Mine is good at taking in turf and playing with the postman.

IvaBigWun

I want it to be 1995 again.

There were no headlines like this in 1995.

YFlyer

Lia_lia wrote: »

I'd marry my dog if I could!

What about your boyfriend?

lulu1

What a load of rubbish

Karl Stein

it's bound to be a purrfect marriage.

is mise spartacus

Her parents are in the dog house then

Smidge

Marriage can ruff. I mean at some point you'll end up in the dog house and just wait till the little pups come along. You'd end up barking mad

Lapin

Pity it wasn't in Korea. Would have saved the family a fortune.

Fido could have been the bridegroom in the morning and the dinner in the afternoon.

shruikan2553

Is this what the Iona institute has been warning us about?

Absoluvely

A dog has been forced to marry a teenager***

Knex*

Yeah, and its supposedly gay weddings that will ruin the sanctimony of marriage.

policarp

Durty Bitch, , ,

Micky Dolenz

I've rode worse

Carry

Apart from that being Sunday World, apart from that is supposed being India where strange (and mostly despciable) things are going on regarding women, apart from this being AH ...

... I think this girl is lucky to be married to a dog instead to a human (no, I'm not talking about sex, so don't even start).

I'd marry my dog anytime. Best friend ever and a real character!
So.

TheBegotten

Remember that fella that married a goat because he thought it was his reincarnated wife? To be honest I'd say that the dog gets offered to the gods or something and this girl is now free to marry without being "unlucky". Silly really, I feel bad for the dog.

Unless she's a ride.

ardle1

Mwanajuma do you take Buster to be your lawful wedded Husband: I do..
Buster do you take Mwanajuma to be your lawful wedded wife: sausages..

Esel

No-one should be shotgunned into marrying an actual dog.

Marriage is serious, and should be entered into of one's own free will.

policarp

TheBegotten wrote: »

Remember that fella that married a goat because he thought it was his reincarnated wife?

How many kids did he have?

Lapin

Carry wrote: »

Apart from that being Sunday World, apart from that is supposed being India where strange (and mostly despciable) things are going on regarding women, apart from this being AH ...

... I think this girl is lucky to be married to a dog instead to a human (no, I'm not talking about sex, so don't even start).

I'd marry my dog anytime. Best friend ever and a real character!
So.

I wouldn't take it so seriously.

Its most likely a quaint village custom over there with no real meaning behind it other than maintaining tradition.

Just picture the wedding guests there when reading a feature in their newspapers the following morning about a quaint village in the mountains in far western Europe near the edge of the Atlantic.

In this village the locals climb the mountains every year to find a goat.

When they find one, it is brought back to the village, placed high upon a platform and crowned king in a solemn ceremony involving local celebrities, business leaders and clergy. And all the villagers spend the next three days and nights worshiping this goat amid much drinking, eating, trading of animals and more drinking.

At the end of the three days, the king is taken down from the platform, fed, has his crown removed and is taken back up the mountains to become a goat again.

And the villagers return to a normal boring life of sobriety and football training.


Meanwhile back in the Punjab, the wedding guests are reading this and thinking 'and those Paddies think we're mad for marrying dogs'.

Miall108

A Dog??? Thats no thing to call your wife

steveblack

dog gestation period is 2 month, a human 9, split the difference come back here in 5 months and see whats happened.

Sunnyisland

I was just told that the dog felt sick at the wedding but not to worry as there was a vet in the village...

Is the dog going to be killed now?
Cos that's just sad

FloatingVoter

bluewolf wrote: »

Is the dog going to be killed now?
Cos that's just sad

Nah, he'll probably run off with some cheap bitch he picked up at the wedding.