“Till death do us marry”- Indian weds corpse
INDIA: An Indian woman, despairing over her lover’s accidental death
when he fell down a well soon after their engagement, insisted on
ceremonially marrying his corpse just minutes before the cremation.
“It was for just few minutes the girl was dressed as a bride and then
as a widow,” K.M. Kapadia, a police officer in the town of Anand in
western Gujarat state, said on Saturday.
Wedding attendees sat the corpse up by a fire, the traditional centre
of Hindu wedding ceremonies, and chanted some marriage prayers before
cremating the body, police said.
“The girl refused to give away the body of her lover for the
cremation till she tied the knot with him,” Kapadia said.
The bride’s parents opposed the marriage but later attended the
wedding ceremony and gave their 22-year-old daughter Tulsi Devipujak
clothes and utensils as gifts, according to the Hindu tradition.
Ahmedabad, Sunday, Reuters
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