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Human–animal marriage

2012-05-12T05:33:04Z

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{{refimprove|date=June 2011}}
'''Human-animal marriage''' is not recognized in law by any country.{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}}

==Historical cases==

===Cow===
* An Indonesian teenager from [[Bali]] was forced by village elders to marry a cow after he was caught fornicating it. Ngurah Alit claimed the cow seduced him and "wooed him with flattering compliments." The cow was then drowned in a "cleansing" ritual.<ref>{{cite news|last=Attewill|first=Fred|title=Man forced to marry cow faints at wedding|url=http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/830794-man-forced-to-marry-cow-faints-at-wedding|accessdate=27 December 2011|newspaper=metro.co.uk|date=14th June, 2010}}</ref>

===Horse===
* In some parts of [[Celt]]ic [[Ireland]], kings (often called "sacred kings") had to wed the local [[goddess]] of the land. A [[druid]]ess was usually chosen to represent the land goddess as the king's wife, but one king in [[Donegal]] married a horse, a representative of their local [[goddess]]. [http://library.thinkquest.org/C0116903/society/classes.htm]
* May 1998 – ''[[The Jerry Springer Show]]'' had an episode titled "I Married a Horse!". The show was ultimately not aired by many stations on the planned date, apparently due to concerns about the acceptability of broadcasting an episode in which a man admitted to a long term emotional and sexual relationship of this kind. The man and his horse later participated in a British documentary on the subject.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cincypost.com/living/1998/spring052198.html|title=Springer's latest: 'I Married a Horse'|work=[[The Cincinnati Post]]|publisher=[[E. W. Scripps Company]]|date=1998-05-21|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040406093707/http://www.cincypost.com/living/1998/spring052198.html|archivedate=2004-04-06}}</ref>
===Manbearpig===
* In 2012 a man allegedly stumbled upon the legendary Manbearpig while walking his dog. Reports say he then started to wildly fornicate the beast in an attempt to defend himself. By pure luck the beast was impressed by his technique and the two were later formally wed by the church of Scientology.
===Dog===
* June 2003 – A nine year old [[India]]n girl of the [[Santal]] (or 'Santhal') tribe of [[Khanyhan]], near [[Calcutta]] was formally married to a dog, in order to ward off a bad [[omen]]. The wedding was attended by more than one hundred guests, who danced to the beating of drums and drank home-made liquor. The girl told [[Western world|Western]] press, "I have no regret in marrying the dog Bacchan. I am fond of the dog who moves around our locality (translation [''sic''])" and tribal elders added she was free to remarry a human in future as an adult. <ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3004930.stm | work=BBC News | title=Girl weds dog to break 'evil spell' | date=2003-06-19}}</ref>
* November 2007 – A man in southern India married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony as an attempt to atone for stoning two other dogs to death – an act he believes cursed him. Selvakumar, 33, told the paper he had been suffering since he stoned two dogs to death and hung their bodies from a tree 15 years prior.<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21768663/ Man in India marries dog as atonement - World news - Weird news - Animal weirdness - msnbc.com]</ref>
* February 2009 – An infant boy was married off to his neighbors' dog in eastern India by villagers who said it will stop the groom from being killed by wild animals. The boy will still be able to marry a human bride in the future without filing for divorce. <ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29259293/ Indian boy marries dog to ward off tigers - World news - Weird news - msnbc.com]</ref>
* November 2010 – A young [[Toowoomba, Queensland]] man tied the knot with his best friend – a five-year-old labrador.<ref>[http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/toowoomba-man-marries-dog-20101201-18g5o.html Toowoomba Man Marries His Dog]</ref>

===Goat===
{{Main|Sudanese goat marriage incident}}
* February 2006 – A [[Sudan]]ese man named Charles Tombe caught having sex with a neighbour's [[goat]] which was subsequently nicknamed [[Rose (goat)|Rose]], was ordered by the council of [[Elder (administrative title)|elder]]s to pay the neighbour a [[dowry]] of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($75) and marry the animal.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm | work=BBC News | title=Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat | date=2006-02-24 | accessdate=2010-05-04}}</ref>

===Snake===
* June 2006 – An [[India]]n woman from [[Bhubaneswar]], [[Orissa]], allegedly "fell in love with a snake" and was married to it at a "traditional Hindu wedding celebrated by 2,000 guests". She claimed that a bond of understanding existed between the two. The woman had previously been ill, and recovered upon offering milk to the snake, at which time she fell in love. She later "converted to the animal-loving vegetarian [[Vaishnav]] sect whose local elders gave her permission to marry the [[cobra]]." [http://hindustantimes.com/news/181_1711610,00110002.htm]. An investigation by ''[[Harper's]]'' magazine journalist [[Mischa Berlinski]] suggests that the snake may not even exist at all and that the incident may have been stage-managed as part of a local power struggle between Vaishnav religious leaders.<ref>Mischa Berlinski, "Woman marries snake: A peculiar Indian love story", ''Harper's'', Nov. 2007, pp 41–52.</ref>

==Folklore, myth, and popular culture==
* A [[Korea]]n folktale, sometimes known as ''The Silkworm'', tells how [[silk]] originated following the King's daughter spiritually marrying a horse, in completion of a promise made in times of trouble. In the tale, the princess was reborn as a [[silkworm]], a creature whose appearance and mannerisms superficially were said to resemble that of a horse. (From Chonsol Ttara Samch'olli, retold by Heinz Insu Fenkl) {{fact|date=November 2011}}
* A [[Cheyenne]] myth "The Girl Who Married a Dog", states that the group of seven stars known as the [[Pleiades (star cluster)|Pleiades]] originated from seven puppies which a Cheyenne chief's daughter gave birth to after mysteriously being visited by a dog in human form to whom she vowed "Wherever you go, I go".<ref>[http://www.native-languages.org/cheyennestory3.htm The Girl Who Married A Dog]</ref>

==See also==
* [[Speciesism]]
* [[Anthrozoology]]
* [[Zoophilia]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TheGirlWhoMarriedADog-Cheyenne.html A Cheyenne Legend] First People – The Legends
* [http://www.angelfire.com/ca/Indian/GirlMarriedDog.html The Girl Who Married a Dog] (Cheyenne)

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[[Category:Human–animal relationships|Marriage]]
[[Category:Anthropology]]
[[Category:Types of marriage]]

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Human–animal marriage

2012-05-12T05:30:13Z

100.43.122.50: /* Historical cases */

{{refimprove|date=June 2011}}
'''Human-animal marriage''' is not recognized in law by any country.{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}}

==Historical cases==

===Cow===
* An Indonesian teenager from [[Bali]] was forced by village elders to marry a cow after he was caught fornicating it. Ngurah Alit claimed the cow seduced him and "wooed him with flattering compliments." The cow was then drowned in a "cleansing" ritual.<ref>{{cite news|last=Attewill|first=Fred|title=Man forced to marry cow faints at wedding|url=http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/830794-man-forced-to-marry-cow-faints-at-wedding|accessdate=27 December 2011|newspaper=metro.co.uk|date=14th June, 2010}}</ref>

===Horse===
* In some parts of [[Celt]]ic [[Ireland]], kings (often called "sacred kings") had to wed the local [[goddess]] of the land. A [[druid]]ess was usually chosen to represent the land goddess as the king's wife, but one king in [[Donegal]] married a horse, a representative of their local [[goddess]]. [http://library.thinkquest.org/C0116903/society/classes.htm]
* May 1998 – ''[[The Jerry Springer Show]]'' had an episode titled "I Married a Horse!". The show was ultimately not aired by many stations on the planned date, apparently due to concerns about the acceptability of broadcasting an episode in which a man admitted to a long term emotional and sexual relationship of this kind. The man and his horse later participated in a British documentary on the subject.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cincypost.com/living/1998/spring052198.html|title=Springer's latest: 'I Married a Horse'|work=[[The Cincinnati Post]]|publisher=[[E. W. Scripps Company]]|date=1998-05-21|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040406093707/http://www.cincypost.com/living/1998/spring052198.html|archivedate=2004-04-06}}</ref>
Manbearpig. In 2012 a man allegedly stumbled upon the legendary Manbearpig while walking his dog. Reports say he then started to wildly fornicate the beast in an attempt to defend himself. By pure luck the beast was impressed by his technique and the two were later formally wed by the church of Scientology.
===Dog===
* June 2003 – A nine year old [[India]]n girl of the [[Santal]] (or 'Santhal') tribe of [[Khanyhan]], near [[Calcutta]] was formally married to a dog, in order to ward off a bad [[omen]]. The wedding was attended by more than one hundred guests, who danced to the beating of drums and drank home-made liquor. The girl told [[Western world|Western]] press, "I have no regret in marrying the dog Bacchan. I am fond of the dog who moves around our locality (translation [''sic''])" and tribal elders added she was free to remarry a human in future as an adult. <ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3004930.stm | work=BBC News | title=Girl weds dog to break 'evil spell' | date=2003-06-19}}</ref>
* November 2007 – A man in southern India married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony as an attempt to atone for stoning two other dogs to death – an act he believes cursed him. Selvakumar, 33, told the paper he had been suffering since he stoned two dogs to death and hung their bodies from a tree 15 years prior.<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21768663/ Man in India marries dog as atonement - World news - Weird news - Animal weirdness - msnbc.com]</ref>
* February 2009 – An infant boy was married off to his neighbors' dog in eastern India by villagers who said it will stop the groom from being killed by wild animals. The boy will still be able to marry a human bride in the future without filing for divorce. <ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29259293/ Indian boy marries dog to ward off tigers - World news - Weird news - msnbc.com]</ref>
* November 2010 – A young [[Toowoomba, Queensland]] man tied the knot with his best friend – a five-year-old labrador.<ref>[http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/toowoomba-man-marries-dog-20101201-18g5o.html Toowoomba Man Marries His Dog]</ref>

===Goat===
{{Main|Sudanese goat marriage incident}}
* February 2006 – A [[Sudan]]ese man named Charles Tombe caught having sex with a neighbour's [[goat]] which was subsequently nicknamed [[Rose (goat)|Rose]], was ordered by the council of [[Elder (administrative title)|elder]]s to pay the neighbour a [[dowry]] of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($75) and marry the animal.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm | work=BBC News | title=Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat | date=2006-02-24 | accessdate=2010-05-04}}</ref>

===Snake===
* June 2006 – An [[India]]n woman from [[Bhubaneswar]], [[Orissa]], allegedly "fell in love with a snake" and was married to it at a "traditional Hindu wedding celebrated by 2,000 guests". She claimed that a bond of understanding existed between the two. The woman had previously been ill, and recovered upon offering milk to the snake, at which time she fell in love. She later "converted to the animal-loving vegetarian [[Vaishnav]] sect whose local elders gave her permission to marry the [[cobra]]." [http://hindustantimes.com/news/181_1711610,00110002.htm]. An investigation by ''[[Harper's]]'' magazine journalist [[Mischa Berlinski]] suggests that the snake may not even exist at all and that the incident may have been stage-managed as part of a local power struggle between Vaishnav religious leaders.<ref>Mischa Berlinski, "Woman marries snake: A peculiar Indian love story", ''Harper's'', Nov. 2007, pp 41–52.</ref>

==Folklore, myth, and popular culture==
* A [[Korea]]n folktale, sometimes known as ''The Silkworm'', tells how [[silk]] originated following the King's daughter spiritually marrying a horse, in completion of a promise made in times of trouble. In the tale, the princess was reborn as a [[silkworm]], a creature whose appearance and mannerisms superficially were said to resemble that of a horse. (From Chonsol Ttara Samch'olli, retold by Heinz Insu Fenkl) {{fact|date=November 2011}}
* A [[Cheyenne]] myth "The Girl Who Married a Dog", states that the group of seven stars known as the [[Pleiades (star cluster)|Pleiades]] originated from seven puppies which a Cheyenne chief's daughter gave birth to after mysteriously being visited by a dog in human form to whom she vowed "Wherever you go, I go".<ref>[http://www.native-languages.org/cheyennestory3.htm The Girl Who Married A Dog]</ref>

==See also==
* [[Speciesism]]
* [[Anthrozoology]]
* [[Zoophilia]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TheGirlWhoMarriedADog-Cheyenne.html A Cheyenne Legend] First People – The Legends
* [http://www.angelfire.com/ca/Indian/GirlMarriedDog.html The Girl Who Married a Dog] (Cheyenne)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Human-Animal Marriage}}
[[Category:Human–animal relationships|Marriage]]
[[Category:Anthropology]]
[[Category:Types of marriage]]

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Human–animal marriage

2012-05-12T05:20:53Z

100.43.122.50: /* Cow */

{{refimprove|date=June 2011}}
'''Human-animal marriage''' is not recognized in law by any country.{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}}

==Historical cases==

===Cow===
* An Indonesian teenager from [[Bali]] was forced by village elders to marry a cow after he was caught fornicating it. Ngurah Alit claimed the cow seduced him and "wooed him with flattering compliments." The cow was then drowned in a "cleansing" ritual.<ref>{{cite news|last=Attewill|first=Fred|title=Man forced to marry cow faints at wedding|url=http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/830794-man-forced-to-marry-cow-faints-at-wedding|accessdate=27 December 2011|newspaper=metro.co.uk|date=14th June, 2010}}</ref>

===Horse===
* In some parts of [[Celt]]ic [[Ireland]], kings (often called "sacred kings") had to wed the local [[goddess]] of the land. A [[druid]]ess was usually chosen to represent the land goddess as the king's wife, but one king in [[Donegal]] married a horse, a representative of their local [[goddess]]. [http://library.thinkquest.org/C0116903/society/classes.htm]
* May 1998 – ''[[The Jerry Springer Show]]'' had an episode titled "I Married a Horse!". The show was ultimately not aired by many stations on the planned date, apparently due to concerns about the acceptability of broadcasting an episode in which a man admitted to a long term emotional and sexual relationship of this kind. The man and his horse later participated in a British documentary on the subject.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cincypost.com/living/1998/spring052198.html|title=Springer's latest: 'I Married a Horse'|work=[[The Cincinnati Post]]|publisher=[[E. W. Scripps Company]]|date=1998-05-21|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040406093707/http://www.cincypost.com/living/1998/spring052198.html|archivedate=2004-04-06}}</ref>

===Dog===
* June 2003 – A nine year old [[India]]n girl of the [[Santal]] (or 'Santhal') tribe of [[Khanyhan]], near [[Calcutta]] was formally married to a dog, in order to ward off a bad [[omen]]. The wedding was attended by more than one hundred guests, who danced to the beating of drums and drank home-made liquor. The girl told [[Western world|Western]] press, "I have no regret in marrying the dog Bacchan. I am fond of the dog who moves around our locality (translation [''sic''])" and tribal elders added she was free to remarry a human in future as an adult. <ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3004930.stm | work=BBC News | title=Girl weds dog to break 'evil spell' | date=2003-06-19}}</ref>
* November 2007 – A man in southern India married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony as an attempt to atone for stoning two other dogs to death – an act he believes cursed him. Selvakumar, 33, told the paper he had been suffering since he stoned two dogs to death and hung their bodies from a tree 15 years prior.<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21768663/ Man in India marries dog as atonement - World news - Weird news - Animal weirdness - msnbc.com]</ref>
* February 2009 – An infant boy was married off to his neighbors' dog in eastern India by villagers who said it will stop the groom from being killed by wild animals. The boy will still be able to marry a human bride in the future without filing for divorce. <ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29259293/ Indian boy marries dog to ward off tigers - World news - Weird news - msnbc.com]</ref>
* November 2010 – A young [[Toowoomba, Queensland]] man tied the knot with his best friend – a five-year-old labrador.<ref>[http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/toowoomba-man-marries-dog-20101201-18g5o.html Toowoomba Man Marries His Dog]</ref>

===Goat===
{{Main|Sudanese goat marriage incident}}
* February 2006 – A [[Sudan]]ese man named Charles Tombe caught having sex with a neighbour's [[goat]] which was subsequently nicknamed [[Rose (goat)|Rose]], was ordered by the council of [[Elder (administrative title)|elder]]s to pay the neighbour a [[dowry]] of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($75) and marry the animal.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4748292.stm | work=BBC News | title=Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat | date=2006-02-24 | accessdate=2010-05-04}}</ref>

===Snake===
* June 2006 – An [[India]]n woman from [[Bhubaneswar]], [[Orissa]], allegedly "fell in love with a snake" and was married to it at a "traditional Hindu wedding celebrated by 2,000 guests". She claimed that a bond of understanding existed between the two. The woman had previously been ill, and recovered upon offering milk to the snake, at which time she fell in love. She later "converted to the animal-loving vegetarian [[Vaishnav]] sect whose local elders gave her permission to marry the [[cobra]]." [http://hindustantimes.com/news/181_1711610,00110002.htm]. An investigation by ''[[Harper's]]'' magazine journalist [[Mischa Berlinski]] suggests that the snake may not even exist at all and that the incident may have been stage-managed as part of a local power struggle between Vaishnav religious leaders.<ref>Mischa Berlinski, "Woman marries snake: A peculiar Indian love story", ''Harper's'', Nov. 2007, pp 41–52.</ref>

==Folklore, myth, and popular culture==
* A [[Korea]]n folktale, sometimes known as ''The Silkworm'', tells how [[silk]] originated following the King's daughter spiritually marrying a horse, in completion of a promise made in times of trouble. In the tale, the princess was reborn as a [[silkworm]], a creature whose appearance and mannerisms superficially were said to resemble that of a horse. (From Chonsol Ttara Samch'olli, retold by Heinz Insu Fenkl) {{fact|date=November 2011}}
* A [[Cheyenne]] myth "The Girl Who Married a Dog", states that the group of seven stars known as the [[Pleiades (star cluster)|Pleiades]] originated from seven puppies which a Cheyenne chief's daughter gave birth to after mysteriously being visited by a dog in human form to whom she vowed "Wherever you go, I go".<ref>[http://www.native-languages.org/cheyennestory3.htm The Girl Who Married A Dog]</ref>

==See also==
* [[Speciesism]]
* [[Anthrozoology]]
* [[Zoophilia]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/TheGirlWhoMarriedADog-Cheyenne.html A Cheyenne Legend] First People – The Legends
* [http://www.angelfire.com/ca/Indian/GirlMarriedDog.html The Girl Who Married a Dog] (Cheyenne)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Human-Animal Marriage}}
[[Category:Human–animal relationships|Marriage]]
[[Category:Anthropology]]
[[Category:Types of marriage]]

[[vi:Hôn nhân giữa người và thú]]