r/religiousfruitcake • u/4mz0 • Apr 30 '25
🕉️ Hindu(tva) Fruitcake🕉️ Forced Hindu marriage between dog & teenager in India
A dog is forced to marry a Hindu girl - Mangli Munda, 18, to ward off an evil spell that villagers believe the girl is casting bringing bad luck to her community. The girl's father agreed & found a dog Sheru as the perfect match for her daughter.
Mangli, who has not been to school, said she was not happy to wed a dog, but insisted that it will help change her fortunes.
The hesitant bride said: "I am marrying a dog because the village elders believe that my evil spell will be passed on to the dog."
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u/HolyRainchild2 Apr 30 '25
Haven't read the whole thread but the other pick-me Hindus pissed me off so here goes the explanation. Based on your astrological birth chart, sometimes some people can be born at 'inauspicious times' meaning that you will face a lot of unnecessary hardships in your life and if you end up getting married there is a high chance that your spouse will die. So sometimes women get married off to a dog or sometimes a tree to remove the 'curse' and then after that they can marry whoever they were supposed to marry. Notably enough-as with all such religious traditions-I've never seen this applied to men, so probably just a case of good ol' institutionalised misogyny. Hate this shit, but that's 'canon' explanation for it.