Show maid wed to goat incredible as it may seem a young inolan ri JIin girl was recently married tu to a goat at a near the bowrah suburb of calcutta them the girls two sisters were widowed nt at an early age ageana and to sive save his third daughter from the stigma of early widowhood her father directed that this ceremony should be carried out the theory behind the practice la Is that if fate has doomed a girl to be widowed young and abd she goes through the ceremony of marriage with an animal or plant the evil spirit will mistake it for her real husband and kill it then there will be no curse to prevent her from living as long as she likes with her subsequent real husband |