For the Taoists, there is this custom whereby a hen or cockerel is used to represent an absent bride or groom. This is only symbolic. Recently I read an article about an old man in India who married a dog for good luck. Now that was back in 2004. What happened to the man and his dog bride? Did they live happily ever after?
Read on the find out.
Man marries dog for luck, then dies
A 75-year-old man in Nepal married a dog in a local custom to ensure good luck only to die three days later, a newspaper reported.
With his son and other relatives by his side, Phulram Chaudhary tied the knot with a dog in Durgauli village in the south-western Kailali district on Saturday.
He was following a custom of his Tharu community, which holds that an old man who regrows teeth must take a dog as a bride.
"He believed that this would help him avoid great misfortune later in life," the state-run daily Gorkhapatra said. "However, he died a few days afterward."
AFP
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