The Unwed And The Dead
In Shahpurpatori village, Bihar, it is The Night of the Living Dead, because the dead are hell-bent on living it up. The Times of India reports:
Seema, of Shahpurpatori village, had died after being bit by a snake. Police said her father Brajmohan Choudhary conducted her marriage Wednesday after she began appearing in his dreams and insisted that she be married as per rituals.
Choudhary felt it was not just a dream and that her soul was creating “disturbances” in his household every day.
I see some possibilities here for a sequel to So I married an ax murderer.
According to the newspaper report,
Police officials said the marriage attracted such a crowd that it was difficult for them to manage it.
No word on how many of the attendies were zombies themselves.
Also, in spite of the high standard of journalism evidenced, one senses something amiss. The report slakes a thirst that it doesn’t quite quench. What, for instance, of the groom in question? Who was the fortunate man, or corpse, as the case may be? Was he respresented in body, or only in spirit? This and several other essential aspects (the little matter of the honeymoon, to take but one instance) the reporter has failed to touch upon. Still for what it’s worth, here is the report in its entirety: