Indian customs villagers hold wedding ceremony for frogs

Have you ever seen a wedding for a frog? I believe most people find it unbelievable. However, in Takhapur, a remote Indian village, villagers prayed for rain by holding a wedding ceremony for frogs because they believed that the frog's chirping when it was about to rain was some kind of superpower. To them, the frog is a kind of mascot, an item that can bring good luck!

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is in a village about 85 kilometers east of the Indian city of Siliguri. Villagers held a ceremony to "marry" two frogs. It is a local custom to hold weddings for frogs in order to ensure good weather and a bumper harvest.

Hundreds of villagers in Assam, India, prayed for rain to end the drought and held a wedding for a pair of frogs. "Our area has not seen much rain this year, so we arranged a wedding for two frogs to please the rain god," said Ranjandas, one of the cadres who attended the wedding.​

The ceremony began by catching two frogs, a female and a male, from different villages. "We have to make sure the frogs come from two different villages so that the rain god can accept our call," Das said. When the frog is ready, the whole wedding ceremony will be like our own human wedding ceremony."

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People rushed from villages from all over the country to attend the wonderful 6-hour wedding, and more than 1000 people attended the wedding held in the local park. Two frogs were dressed up in traditional colors, and the female frog was even wrapped in gold chains by villagers.

At the wedding, the saint presiding over the wedding chanted traditional prayers. After the wedding, the frog will be taken to a nearby small pond and released. The villagers continued to eat, and more than 900 plates of food were served.

Gogoi, a villager who attended the ceremony, said: "We released the frogs so they could live their own lives while conveying our message to the rain god. Holding such a ceremony is a last resort, and we thank God for making our wishes come true." It was said that the next morning, it began to rain throughout Dibu. It seemed that the villagers 'prayers were answered by the rain god.