Nowadays, we will seem wild various strange rituals and rituals that our ancestors revered so much, but you cannot blame them for this - they did not have access to the Internet. So they lived as best they could.
Today we will talk about marriage traditions in ancient times, which will not only surprise you, but also make you laugh.
In the Middle Ages, the feudal lord had the right to a wedding night with any peasant woman. That is, if his subordinate got married, then she spent the first night with her master, and then her legal spouse. If, however, he did not like her, then the newly-made hubby could redeem this right from him.
By this, the feudal lord showed his subordinates that everything on his territory belongs to him alone. Another explanation for such a strange tradition lies in the origins of antiquity, when the priests took it upon themselves to spend the night with the bride of the tribe. It was believed that the blood of a virgin is an evil that only an inexperienced leader can defeat. And those were the priests.
Wedding night
When we figured out the right to the wedding night, we can already go on to it. Many nationalities have many strange beliefs about spending a night of love.
For example, in Scotland, relatives of the newlyweds tried in every possible way to prevent them in the midst of the act - they danced, sang, danced right under their windows.
But in the Philippines, they believed that if the first wedding night took place immediately after the wedding celebration, then the child conceived that night could be born sick due to alcohol consumption. Therefore, the young were forced to restrain themselves until the next day.
And for the Chinese, it was important how the room was cleaned, so they decorated the room with flowers with red and yellow candles.
And in Africa, on the very first night, a husband knocked out two of his front teeth to his wife as a sign that she was already married.
And in Russia, the groom was helped by close relatives if something did not work out for him.
