Bizarre marriage rituals around the world
Marriage is a very pure and bliss of god where two persons not tie a knot but they also promises each other to be along lifelong. There are many religion in our country and many different rituals according to them. Every religion represents its culture according to their rituals. Marriage is one of the most catchy topic among youths to discuss not only this but our bollywood industry’s newly wedded couple tie a knot Karan Singh Grover and Bipasha Basu, Bangali Beauty and Punjabi Munda and of course they performed their marriage rituals in their religious way. Our world has so many colors so many different things to known about different religions that are many of them unaware. Some rituals are known to everyone that are familiar but there are some bizarre rituals of the religion that make you amaze or shock I guess after knowing their unique style of wedding rituals.
# Crying Rituals/ China
The Tujia people of China prepare for a wedding 30 days before the wedding day by crying. The bride spends an hour a day crying after 10 days she cry with mother after that her grandmother this task will continue till the bride cry with every female in the family an hour. But thankfully it not an act of sad but it shows their love and affection with each other.
# Kissing Tradition/ Sweden
In Sweden the kissing tradition defines that it is to disappear the groom from the ceremony and unmarried young men allowed to kiss the bride. And the same goes to the groom that bride will disappear from the ceremony and young unmarried woman allowed to kiss the groom.
#spitting on the bride/Kenya
The most wired tradition in marriage performed in Kenya, in which bride head shaved first and then oil applied to the bride’s head and then bride’s spit on the head of bride.
# Beating the groom’s feet/South Korea
It seems strange that in South Korea after the wedding ceremony groom’s friends tie groom’s feet with a rope and then lift it up from the ground and beat his feet with a stick.
# Carrying the bride across the Threshold/ Europe
We can say that this tradition is not new but this ritual began in Medieval Europe, where both bride and groom spend their life in new home, both have to left their home and stay in a new place.
# Marrying with animals/India
In India it is saying that to free from the any type of curse a girl having she should marry a animal weather goat or dog. This is nothing but a mock ceremony and the girl is not expected to copulate with the animal. It’s just to ward off the evil spirits; she is free to marry a man later on.
# Money Dance/ Poland
The money dance preformed in Poland the centre of attraction of this ritual is that bride dance with male guests and on the other hand groom dance with female guests in the ceremony.
# Kyz ala Kachuu, the practice of kidnapping brides /Romani
The word ‘Kyz ala kachuu’ stands for take a young woman and run away. It the craziest rituals among all the rituals’ in the world. It also donates as ‘Bride Kidnapping’.
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