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. 1879 Excerpt: ...join in a prayer to Jesus Christ to honour this wedding with His presence, in the same way as He did the one in Galilee, so that we all, the bride and the bridegroom, the village and the vale, may receive the 'Holy Virgin's' most gracious blessing.--Amen." The company then rise and adjourn to the large Tanzboden of the ...
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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. 1879 Excerpt: ...join in a prayer to Jesus Christ to honour this wedding with His presence, in the same way as He did the one in Galilee, so that we all, the bride and the bridegroom, the village and the vale, may receive the 'Holy Virgin's' most gracious blessing.--Amen." The company then rise and adjourn to the large Tanzboden of the roomy inn. This, the dancing-room of the house, is frequently a semi-detached shed, with large openings, but no windows, all round, in order that a thorough draught may refresh the indefatigable dancers. The Ehrentanz, the dance of honour to which we have referred on a former occasion, is then performed, and a series of comical by-plays are enacted by the gayest and wittiest of the young village bucks. Now the bride is suddenly carried off and hid by her gay captors. Now a sack is thrown over the head of the bridegroom, and he is not released till he guesses the name of the malefactor. For every name he calls out he has to pay a certain quantity of wine or beer. Now the musicians are all of a sudden stricken with breathlessness, obliging them to stop their performance in the middle of a swinging "Landler," or their instruments get suddenly out of tune, and naught but the most discordant sounds are heard. These ailings are, however, one and all curable by a simple bribe of so-and-so many quarts of wine or beer. At eleven the couple generally leave for their distant home. The boys of the village have, however, not been idle in the meanwhile. When the couple arrive at their house, they find the doorway blocked up by a huge tree fresh from the wood. This is the so-called " Wiegenholz," wood for the cradle; if the bride has had a little mishap prior to her nuptial day, the tree is coated with pitch, obliging the angry husb...
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