Frog wedding held as Siddipet farmers pray for rains

The BG Venkatapur village in Jagadevpur mandal here became witness to the rare ritual of a frog wedding, as farmers in the village, after several years performed the custom while praying for good rains.

With two frogs being bathed in turmeric paste and made to ‘tie the knot’ amid chanting of mantras, the ritual saw



woman farmers offering water to the frogs while children went around the streets of the villages carrying the newly married couple.

The ritual was conducted after intermittent rains in Siddipet left the farming fraternity worried as cotton seeds, which farmers had sown in an extent of nearly 60,000 acres, did not sprout.