Among the Syrian Christians weddings usually take place on a Sunday. Friday is devoted to the ceremonies of the bath, and on Saturday all the neighbors come in to see the bride-elect, who is painted and gaily dressed, and to offer their congratulations. During the two previous days invitations to the wedding are conveyed to […]
IN Sweden if a youth and maiden eat of the same piece of bread people say they are sure to fall in love with one another. This is not an indispensable preliminary ? at least in the province of Bohus and in Finland. In those parts a matrimonial go-between is often employed to carry the […]
THAT Russians do not esteem women highly is clearly shown by their proverbs. “There is only one soul,” they say, “between ten women.”A husband declares, I love thee as my soul, and I beat thee as my cloak.”In country districts they marry early, but the sons do not quit their father’s house. This arrangement is […]
AMONG the peasants in many parts of Ireland the match-maker conducts all matrimonial preliminaries, both “affairs of the heart,” where the messages she conveys are dictated by true love, and affairs fostered by calculating parents, who consult rather their children’s interest than their inclination.
The most successful match-makers are mid-wives and “cosherers.”The cosherer is a […]
IT is doubtful whether the Vedas and other ancient sacred books of the Hindus countenance the polygamy which prevails among the richer classes in India, and against this degradation of the sex Hindu marriage ceremonies, which have descended from remote ages, make their constant, albeit useless, protest. The whole spirit of their marriage ritual is […]
FROM the ancient civilisations of the East, and from the customs of primitive races, we now turn to modern Europe.
The unfortunate Greeks having so long been under the yoke of Turkey it is not surprising to find that some of their marriage customs resemble those of the Turks. But the reader who follows this […]
THERE are many ways of encouraging or discouraging a lover’s attentions besides saying in so many words that he is welcome or had better be gone. The Dauphine maiden is past mistress in this art. When a swain’s visits are pleasing to her, she makes his soup thick with grated cheese; If the contrary, he […]
WE have reserved our account of the customs of our country to the end, in order that the reader may be in a better position to understand the origin and meaning of those observances which have been handed down from a more or less remote antiquity. There are more survivals in our present marriage customs […]
WEDDING BELLS RING FOR TWO HOOSIER GERMANS!
For most of the people driving down Laotians St. in Huntington, Indiana this past 24 May, it must have seemed like an ordinary wedding - just another bride and a groom on the front steps of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, surrounded by family and friends. Little did they […]
THE lives of the Celestials, as the Chinese style themselves, are very much ruled and influenced by certain notions with regard to spirits and the spirit-world. Their passionate desire for male children is essentially a religious sentiment. Not only do they consider, as the Jews of old did, that a man with a large family […]
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