A few days back, I posted an article on how a 9-year-old Tamil girl had successfully became a Microsoft Certified professional by passing the MCP examination and I gotta say that it made me happy and proud of her achievement. Well, that is a different story. This time, I came across yet another interesting news, but this news neither made me proud nor happy with what ‘she’ did, or to be precise, what had been done to her. Well, as funny as it may sound, it seems that an 8-year-old Tamil girl had been married off to a frog! You heard that right, it’s a frog, the creepy-looking four-legged amphibian creature!
TAMILNADU (20/1/09): The annual ritual of getting a girl married to a frog organised in Pallu Puthupattu village on the Tamil Nadu – Puducherry border is an interesting meeting of fairy tale and real life.
On the first Friday of Thai (Tamil month) every year, a girl of Pallu Puthupattu village is married off to a frog that is fished out from a temple tank.
On Friday 8-year-old R Vigneswari of the village was married to a frog that was fished out from a Sri Muthu Mariyamman temple.
At the wedding the residents adopted all the rituals that are followed during a normal wedding. The people residing at western side of Sri Muthu Mariyamman temple were considered as relatives of frog. They visited the residence of the bride, Vigneswari and obtained permission of her parents for the marriage.
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I am in no position to justify whether their belief/ritual is right or wrong but practically, it is total crap and even a 3-year-old kid would be laughing at the above news. Talking about what happened, why don’t we check out the reason given on why it happened?
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