Watch: Mexican mayor weds crocodile in harvest ritual

A politician of a tiny Mexican municipality has wed a crocodile bride successful an age-old ritual for prosperity. He could beryllium seen kissing the reptile, whose snout had been tied shut.

The seven-year-old crocodile, nicknamed 'little princess', is thought to correspond a deity linked with parent earth. Her matrimony to the section person symbolises the joining of humans with the divine.

The contented apt dates backmost centuries to Oaxaca state's Chontal and Huave indigenous communities. "It is the national of 2 cultures. The national of the Huaves and the Chontales," Mayor Victor Hugo Sosa told reporters.