Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — A Strange Custom. [ARTICLE]

A Strange Custom.

A curious marriage custom is re corded by Dr. Post as existing in Southern India among some of the more primitive non-Aryan tribes. This oonsists of wedding a girl to a plant, a tree, an animal, or even an inanimate object, the notion being that any ill-luck which may follow an actual marriage may bo-averted by a union of this kind.