
And other stories from the stranger side of life
A mayor of a Mexican town has married a crocodile bride in a traditional ritual for prosperity, reported the BBC. Mayor Victor Hugo Sosa could be seen kissing the reptile, whose snout had been tied shut. The seven-year-old crocodile is believed to symbolise a deity linked with mother earth and her marriage represents the joining of humans with the divine. “It is the union of two cultures,” Mayor Victor Hugo Sosa told reporters.