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Matrimonial Ceremonies Displayed; Wherein Are Exhibited the Various Customs, Odd Pranks, Whimsical Tricks and Surprising Practices of Near One Hundred

Matrimonial Ceremonies Displayed; Wherein Are Exhibited the Various Customs, Odd Pranks, Whimsical Tricks and Surprising Practices of Near One Hundred

Gaya, Louis De

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ISBN10: 115135693X
ISBN13: 9781151356932
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.06 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880. Excerpt: ... MARRIAGE CEREMONIES AS NOW USED IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. PART III. The Customs And Ceremonies Observed In The Marriages Of The Idolaters And Pagans. THE Indians are either Pagans, Mahometans, Jews, Christians, of St. Thomas, or Roman Catholics; but as they all follow in their marriages those rules their religion prescribes for them; we will discourse in this part, only of those that remain yet in the darkness of Paganism and Idolatry. In some places, the Pagans have only one principal wife (but as many others as they please) with whom contract is commonly made at marriage, that they shall cast themselves into their husband's funeral-pile. Their marriages are celebrated eight days, with music, balls, and feasts; and all that time the guests apply themselves to nothing but singing, dancing, and all sorts of re If we were to have such a clause inserted in our wedding writings, I fear me, we should most of us be bachelors: it is abhorrent from nature to compel a young woman to be burnt, because her husband died before. Sure those wives are very tender and cautious of their husbands in a fit of sickness, since both their lives are fatally twisted in the same thread. What would our widows think of this contract, that can follow a fourth husband to the grave, and are not unprovided of another at the same instant. joicings. They dance after their manner, two and two together in divers couples; when they meet, they change two little sticks they hold in their hands. In Ceylon, promiscuous intercourse among the sexes is so common, that little or no disgrace attends it, even though the parties are engaged in the violation of the marriage relations, unless it be with one of an inferior rank in society--then, if exposed, the one of superior standing loses reputation...

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