WATCH: Mayor marries alligator to guard city from nature

The mayor of a small city married an alligator in a conventional ceremony, as residents danced and implored him to kiss his bride.

Mayor Victor Hugo Sosa of San Pedro Huamelula, a small city in Mexico, kissed the alligator on the snout, which was tied closed, a number of occasions, in accordance to a report.

Marriage to an alligator is a centuries-old custom that acts as a prayer for nature's bounty within the Chontal and Huave indigenous communities of the Oaxaca state.

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"We ask nature for sufficient rain, for sufficient meals, that we have now fish within the river," Sosa stated.

The ceremony has been up to date with a mixture of Catholic themes, because the alligator was wearing a white marriage ceremony costume and accompanying colourful clothes, the report famous.

The 7-year-old gator was known as "Little Princess."

She is believed to be a illustration of Mom Earth, and her marriage to the mayor represents a mixture of man and the divine.

"It offers me a lot happiness and makes me pleased with my roots," the godmother who organized the ceremony stated.

"It is a very lovely custom."