QUEER WEDDING EFFIGY
There is . a curious custom still prevalent in the Bcllary district of India in connection with the wedding ceremonies among certain Urahmin families, (says a writer in an English paper). Just prior to the close of tho feasting, a hideous effigy of a malo-figure, fantastically robed in rags, supposed to represent the bridegroom's father, is carried aloni; tho streets in procession, under tho shade of a sieve adorned with tassels of nnions and margosa leaves. Every few yards during the procession tho feet of tho effigy havo to be reverently washed and its forehead decorated with a caste mark by its living spouse, the bridegroom's mother. The bridegroom's other fcrnalo relations havo several mock attentions paid to them by the women of the brido's party.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 313, 28 September 1908, Page 3
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128QUEER WEDDING EFFIGY Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 313, 28 September 1908, Page 3
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