Girl cuts off tongue to get the right husband

An Indian girl being coerced into an arranged marriage decided that she needed to make a sacrifice to the Gods to find the right husband. She went about that by chopping off her tongue and offering it up. Yeah. That happened.

A 19-year-old girl chopped off her tongue inside a Shiva temple and offered it to the god at Jhar village in Bargarh. She did so to invoke the god’s blessings to marry the person she desired instead of the match fixed by her parents. The temple priest found her lying in the temple with blood on her face on Tuesday morning. She told the priest about the incident.

“I was shocked to see her lying on the temple floor in the morning. She was bleeding from her face. She had chopped her tongue with a blade and offered it to the god,” priest of the temple Basudev Mohapatra told TOI.

Villagers rushed to the temple when the news spread. They tried to take her to the hospital but she refused. “We tried to take her to the nearby hospital but she refused to go anywhere,” villager Narayan Meher said.

The girl was not willing to marry the match fixed by her parents because he was much older than her. She was interested to marry a younger boy.

Is it just me or is the tongue kind of disgusting when you see it close up like the one in an image above? That’s a perfectly healthy tongue yet it makes me kind of want to vomit. I mean my tongue has been many awful places, some I’m proud of, some I’m not (the phrase “glory hole” comes to mind) but even without that, that bumpy, slithery, burn victim-looking thing is not exactly the sexiest thing in the world.

In spite of that, probably not a good idea to slice it out. You do kind of need it to talk and put stamps on envelopes. How much of an ass must her proposed husband have felt like? You’re probably lacking a little in some category if a woman is cutting off necessary appendages just because she has to marry you.

[Times of India]

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