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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd. In six weddings this year in India, two boys and four girls were married in tribal-custom ceremonies to dogs, which is believed to bring better luck to children who have been cursed by teething first from the upper jaw (“dog teeth”).
June 8, 2005
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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
In six weddings this year in India, two boys and four girls were married in tribal-custom ceremonies to dogs, which is believed to bring better luck to children who have been cursed by teething first from the upper jaw (“dog teeth”). (Agence France-Presse reported that the four February marriages in Jharkhand state involved, thank goodness, dogs of the opposite gender from the spouse.)
In February, a Pakistani tribal council in Kacha Chohan (Punjab state) ordered a 2-year-old girl to marry a man, age 42, to punish the girl’s uncle for having sex with that man’s current wife (although the marriage will not be official until the girl turns 18).
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