A Mexican Mayor has entered into a holy matrimony with a crocodile inorder to bring good fortune to his people.
Mayor Victor Hugo Sosa took a female Caiman reptile named Alicia Adriana as his betrothed in a traditional ceremony as onlookers clapped and danced.
Victor Hugo Sosa, mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, a town of Indigenous Chontal people in the Tehuantepec isthmus of Mexico, re-enacting an ancestral ritual.
Sosa swore to be true to what local lore calls "the princess girl."
"I accept responsibility because we love each other. That is what is important. You can't have a marriage without love... I yield to marriage with the princess girl."
Marriage between a man and a female caiman has taken place there for 230 years to commemorate the peace between the Chontal and Huave indigenous groups.
The mayor, representing the Chontal king, marries the reptile, symbolising a Huave princess girl, in a union of the two communities.
Before the ceremony, the animal is carried from house to house so locals can hold her and dance.
The reptile wears a green skirt, a colourful hand-embroidered tunic and a headdress of ribbons and sequins.
Her snout is bound shut so there aren't any pre-marital mishaps.
She is later dressed in a white bride's costume and taken to the local town hall for the wedding.
The wedding ceremony is a way for the communities to seek blessings for rain, crop germination, peace, and harmony.
