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It happened for real during a traditional hindu ceremony at a temple in the southerly state of Tamil Nadu. The groom in question was a 33-year-old Indian farmer named Selvakumar, and he was married to a female dog named Selvi. He wedded his four legged bitch to repent for stoning two other dogs to death and stringing them up in a tree fifteen years ago. He believed the act cursed him and he had been troubled ever since, he told the Hindustan Times. After he stoned the dogs he said his legs and hands got paralyzed, he lost hearing in one ear, and his speech was impaired.

With physicians unable to help him, Selvakumar turned to an astrologist who assured him he was cursed by the spirits of the dogs he had killed. He could unmake the curse exclusively if he married a dog and live with it, the soothsayer warned. Family members picked out a stray female dog who was then bathed and dressed for the wedding affair.

Selvi the bride was brought to the temple by village women and a Hindu priest directed 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 newspaper said the groom and his family then ingested a feast, while the dog got a roll. It was reported that Selvi attempted to make a dash for it — evidently due to the enormous crowds — but she was dogged down and returned to her brand-new ‘husband’.

“The dog is only for lifting the curse and after that, he plans to get a genuine bride,” a acquaintance of the groom said. Profoundly superstitious people in rural India sometimes coordinate weddings to dogs and other beasts, thinking it can beat certain curses.