Dog Videos & Dog News | January 17, 2009 | 25 comments

Man marries dog to lift curse

source: http://www.thatsweird.net/news46.shtml

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We have all heard the 'man bites dog' stories, but how about a real-life 'man marries dog' tale!

This one takes the biscuit, and it could only happen in India, the land of the Kama Sutra.

But you won't find this kind of love story between man and beast in the ancient Indian sex manual.

It took place for real during a traditional hindu ceremony at a temple in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

The groom in question was a 33-year-old Indian farmer named Selvakumar, and he was wed to a female dog named Selvi.

He married his four legged bitch to atone for stoning two other dogs to death and stringing them up in a tree 15 years ago.

He believed the act cursed him and he had been suffering ever since, he told the Hindustan Times.

After he stoned the dogs he said his legs and hands got paralysed, he lost hearing in one ear, and his speech was impaired.

With doctors unable to help him, Selvakumar turned to an astrologer who told him he was cursed by the spirits of the dogs he had killed.

He could undo the curse only if he married a dog and live with it, the soothsayer warned.

Family members chose a stray female dog who was then bathed and clothed for the wedding occasion.

Selvi the bride was brought to the temple by village women and a Hindu priest conducted the ceremony.

The paper showed a picture of Selvakumar sitting next to his canine bride, which was adorned in an orange sari and flower garland.

The paper said the groom and his family then had a feast, while the dog got a bun.

It was reported that Selvi attempted to make a bolt for it -- apparently due to the big crowds -- but she was tracked down and returned to her new 'husband'.

"The dog is only for lifting the curse and after that, he plans to get a real bride," a friend of the groom said.

Deeply superstitious people in rural India sometimes organize weddings to dogs and other animals, believing it can beat certain curses.
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25 comments // Man marries dog to lift curse

  • OnlyCheryl
  • blogtactic
  • SamuraiDave
  • numinant
  • SamuraiDave
  • SamuraiDave
  • eden49
  • dabne
  • barbara3d
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      barbara3d  
    • dabne:

      Brendan, don't call me hypocritical and make an ignorant comment like that. I had no intention of being hypocritical. I love all races and you just throw out BS like because you LIVE near a museum, you are freakin genius??

      how people hear don't stick with the "FOCUS" of the thread and immediately start slandering people.And some compare everything to "christians" who btw, can believe in both Science and Faith.

      There was an article on here people should read. Its about "7 reasons people are unhappy in the 21st Century"...because we do not form as many human friends, just a screen where we are free to put out hate and anger without having a face to face. SOOO true!!!

    • 3 years ago
  • numinant
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      numinant  

    • i find this story oddly touching. am i the only one? it's ultimately about repentance through humility. it's like a gesture to show that he no longer considers himself above the creatures he callously slaughtered in his youth. come on, it's touching.

    • 3 years ago
  • damnneargenius
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      damnneargenius  

    • See! This is exactly what I was sarcastically proposing about the sheep and Prop. 8 "freedom".

      So he basically has a pet, but he was the kind of twisted f*ck that would stone a living creature to death in the first place?

      God has got to start working in a more uniform way or something, because this twisted blindness to causing unneeded, undeserved pain and suffering to living creatures is not cool.

    • 3 years ago
  • dudeabides
  • MavericktheMaverick
  • DeliaTheArtist
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      DeliaTheArtist  

    • "the people of India can't seem to make that leap to 21st century though they are very intelligent people in many ways." Yeah, not like the people of America, the majority of whom do not even believe in evolution!

    • 3 years ago
  • petarro
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      petarro  
    • DeliaTheArtist:

      Here you go again with an idiotic comment. How can you compare beliefs to a Religion with the Marriage of a human being with a Dog? Oh, perhaps the Dog will eventually "Evolve" to a Human?

      You are obviously obsessed with this Subject and you should look for Professional Help.

    • 3 years ago
  • DeliaTheArtist
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      DeliaTheArtist  
    • DeliaTheArtist:

      Petarro, I feel so badly for you. You have no idea what is going on half of the time and you lose every argument you have on Current. Your world view is so full of shit; a common result of having your head up your ass.

      Anyway, I was commenting specifically on barbara's comment because Americans still follow many superstitions, adhere to ancient rituals and believe stupid things in the name of religion. We shouldn't be so quick to judge others when we have similar flaws- something you'd understand if you actually followed the words of Jesus.

    • 3 years ago
  • crispyfritters
  • unimatrix0
  • SamuraiDave
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      SamuraiDave  
    • DeliaTheArtist:

      not accepting evolutional theory and marrying mutts are hardly comparable except by the thinnest of thinnest threads of pseudo-intellectual reasoning. William Jennings Byrant would never have smooched a pooch in holy matrimony.

    • 3 years ago
  • unimatrix0
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      unimatrix0  
    • DeliaTheArtist:

      Not accepting evolution is an intellectual deception to satisfy religious superstition.

      The belief that jesus or god responds to requests and grants wishes is every bit as absurd as the guy taking a dog for a bride to lift a curse. They are equally superstitious. Both entail magical thinking.

    • 3 years ago
  • SamuraiDave
  • numinant
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      numinant  
    • DeliaTheArtist:

      in a way, creationism is even more absurd. with this ritual, at least everything seems to correspond to some aspect of reality. that is, it all has very clear metaphorical significance. the symbolism isn't hard to detect. however this guy actually conceptualizes it is his business, but regardless, the ritual serves a function.

      with creationism, that's just fundamentalist desperation to insist that an outmoded creation myth is literally true. but putting saddles on animatronic dinosaurs serves no spiritual value as far as i can tell...

    • 3 years ago
  • petarro
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      petarro  
    • DeliaTheArtist:

      unimatrix0, your perception of life does not have to be shared. And your Hitler talking way is -far- to make anyone change. If you think Atheist are smarter than any religious person, you are obviously still going through your puberty.

      Again, I rather believe in something that is fully documented, to simply think "a particle was just there and grew in size with some other particles that also sudden appeared and then exploded and boom, I'm here 100 million years later."

      No one has the answer to anything, so keep it smart and don't brag about something that is ubberly more idiotic than any other Religion. Think whatever you want.

    • 3 years ago
  • barbara3d
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      barbara3d  

    • al-righty then. Between the sacred cows, rats and other superstitions, the people of India can't seem to make that leap to 21st century though they are very intelligent people in many ways.

      Poor dogs that he stoned. What was he thinking. If he was Catholic, he could have just gone to Confession and be done with it, lol.

    • 3 years ago
  • SamuraiDave
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      SamuraiDave  
    • barbara3d:

      that's rather cultural intolerant observation, don't you think?

      And what's wrong with sacred cows and rats? Seems more humane and civilized than eating and exterminating them.

      And if the fellow wants to marry a dog, let him. Let sleeping dogs lie, I say.

    • 3 years ago
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