10 Strange Rituals Performed in India Even Today


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While the enjoyable rituals are heartily welcome, the bizarre rituals are very tough to tolerate. But it’s hard to change the stubborn mentalities of some orthodox communities.

Here is a glimpse of the few strange rituals being performed in India, as compiled by The wonderlist.

Exorcism by Marriage: Women in India have to undergo lots of rituals throughout her life. Indians hugely believe in spirits and their supernatural powers. Superstitions prevail a lot here among the hearts and minds of people, be it educated or uneducated. They belief that, as per astrology, if some girl is born in some wrong ‘muhurta’ or time, she possesses some evil spirit, that may cost the life of her future husband. She is called ‘Mangalik’. People who believe this superstition deny marrying a mangalik girl.

 As a solution to this, the mangalik girl is first married to a tree or an animal, in most of the cases a dog. Some people even perform this ritual with girls born with some deformities, cleft lip or tooth; because they are believed to be the symbol of possessing some evil spirit.

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