Assam is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys . Here Frog weddings were celebrated by the Rongdoi village in Jorhat district to please the Hindu Rain God Barun where hundreds of villages traditional, young, and old, boys and girls gathered at Rongdoi village communal hall till late at dark to eyewitness the unconventional marriage Frog marriage . There is a mythological belief that if wild frogs caught by people are married off with Vedic rites and traditional marriage ceremonies like human beings, it can help bring rainfall in the coming days. “It was said that there was a poem by ancestors which states that the farmers pray the clouds and asks them as to why there is no rain. The cloud replies that if frog don’t croak then why will I rain”. WOW! There is a trust that when a frog marriage is performed, the Barun Devata the rain-god is happy ...
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