News2News.in Explainer: Strange stories of tribal marriage customs, you will also be stunned after reading

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News2News.in Explainer: Strange stories of tribal marriage customs, you will also be stunned after reading

Amazing traditions regarding marriage in tribes.

Amazing traditions regarding marriage in tribes.

News2News.in Explainer: Chaula Patra village under Karra block of Khunti district of Jharkhand is in limelight. A mass marriage of 501 couples was conducted here two days back. Now it is a matter to think that how this village came into limelight only because of mass marriage. Actually, this village has done what is not easily accepted in the modern society even today. Talking about love-in relationship. This is not a program but a tradition of the tribal society here. In this mass marriage, Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda attended as the chief guest, along with his wife Meera Munda was also present. The whole society gave best wishes for married life to the couples living in love-in relationship. In today’s News2News.in Explainer, you will be told about similar marriage related traditions of tribal society, knowing which you too will be stunned.

Muria Tribe

Muria tribe lives near Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. Here women are encouraged to choose their partners and live-in. The physical boundaries between men and women in the Muria community are non-existent. Today’s modern society is struggling to break these boundaries. This means that here women are free to talk and live life. Ghotul is a tradition of Muria people. In this a bamboo or mud hut is made. Girls and boys entertain by dancing and singing at night. Here the boy and the girl also search for a partner for themselves. The method of selection is also different. When a boy comes to Ghotul, he feels that he is wiser now, so he makes a comb out of bamboo. On the other hand, when a girl likes a boy, she steals his comb. This shows that she likes the boy. When a girl comes out with her hair combed, everyone knows that she likes someone. After this, the boy and the girl become a couple and start decorating the Ghotul. After this both start living together in the same hut. During this they live like husband and wife. After this the families of both the boy and the girl decide their marriage. Only those boys and girls who are known in the community to be in love with each other go to the hut.

Munda and Korwa tribes

Couples of Jharkhand’s Munda and Korwa tribes live in a live-in relationship. Couples in this tribe live in live-in for 30 to 40 years. Couples living together without marriage are called dhukuni and dhukua. Dhukuni means when a woman starts living in a man’s house without getting married. And their relationship is known as Dhukku marriage. The custom of live-in has come to India from western countries, but it is not like that. Even today live-in practice is being seen in many tribal areas. Thousands of couples live in live-in relationship among tribals of Jharkhand. The main reason for this is that he is not able to organize the wedding ceremony. There was no money to give a feast to the people of the village. He used to live in live-in. In a tribal village, two or three generations of a family live together without marrying.

buxa tribe

Even today, a girl is bought for marriage in the Buxa tribe living in the rural settlements of Nainital, Pauri Garhwal and Dehradun in Uttarakhand. The reason for this is that the number of women in this tribe is very less as compared to men. In the Buxa tribe, the girl occupies an important place in the economic earnings of the family before marriage, but after marriage, the family members of the girl are deprived of the benefits that they get with the help of the girl, as compensation for which the father of the girl gets the price of the girl. is considered an official. This amount (price) is given by the boy’s side to the girl’s side before marriage, which is called ‘Malgati’. The marriage of a man in this tribe is possible only when he has so much land for farming that he can nurture himself and his family.

In this tribe, the age of marriage of the girl is 18-20 and the age of the groom is 20-24 years. Polygamy is not prevalent in this tribe. The reason for this is that the number of men in this society is much more than women. That’s why it becomes difficult for a man to marry after the break of the marriage. It is easy for a widow to get married, but it is not easy for a widower to get married. If the wife breaks the relationship, the first husband can demand compensation from her father or new husband and if the wife leaves the husband, the money given to her father has to be returned.

Borana Oromo Tribe

The people of this tribe live in Kenya, but some populations are found in settlements between Ethiopia and Somalia. The total number of people of this tribe is 5 lakhs. Here the girls of Borana tribe shave off a major part of their head before marriage in order to get a good groom. The people of this tribe believe that by shaving their heads, girls get a good groom. It is only after marriage that girls get a chance to grow and groom their hair properly. Not only this, people here do not even consider it good to be photographed after marriage. These people believe that by doing this there is a lack of blood in the body. On the other hand, with the rapid changes in the society, these people are also changing and now these people are moving towards education, but still the beliefs of this tribe are enough to surprise anyone. The women of this tribe use ghee to keep their hair healthy. Makes a lot of peaks. Before marriage, the hair of the middle part of the girls’ head is cut and they can grow this hair only when they get married. Borana women wear traditional dresses made of goat skins and when their traditional dance is performed, it is believed that a child has been born in someone’s house. Most of the rules of this tribe are about children and never call people older than themselves by their first name. The names of children are also determined by tribal rules and the time of day. The boys who are in the afternoon are called guyos. One is named Jill after the ceremony, but if a child is born in the rainy season, it is called Rob and a child born in the dry season is called Bon. After birth, the parents name the child during the ceremony, that name is never changed.

Wodaabe Tribe

The Wodaabe tribe lives in the country of Niger in West Africa. In this tribe, a person has to steal another’s wife in order to marry. Due to this strange custom, people steal each other’s wives and get married later. Home-family, society also gives proper recognition to this marriage. That is, no one gets angry with the one who steals another’s wife, the one whose wife is stolen, also happily accepts this incident. In the Wodaabe tribe of West Africa, the first marriage is arranged by their parents in childhood. This marriage is done only with the girl of his dynasty. When the boys of this tribe become young, they have the freedom to steal the woman of their choice i.e. someone else’s wife. In this recognized theft of Wodabo, the unsuccessful boy is in a bad condition, even the family members consider him incompetent. Not only this, but he could not steal someone else’s wife, so he is also deprived of the right to marry another. In fact, in the society of the Wodaabe tribe, women have the right to have relations with more than one man. Under this, if a woman gets influenced by a man, then she gives that man the freedom to steal her or say that to run away. If he succeeds in doing so, then that woman becomes his wife.

Suri tribe

Like other tribes, the Suri tribe also has unique traditions and is thousands of years old. The way of getting married here is also amazing. The people of Suri tribe consider wide lips as a sign of beauty. As part of a unique practice of the Suri tribe, two teeth in the lower jaw of girls are pulled out as soon as they reach puberty, and a hole is cut through the lip. After this, a piece of hard wood or clay about 16 inches wide is placed in their lips. Over time, the size of this piece is increased so that their lips become bigger and they look more beautiful. The larger the size of the plate applied to a woman’s lips, the more cows her father gets in dowry, usually 40 cows for a girl with a smaller plate and 60 cows for a girl with a bigger plate.

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