This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X SUMMARY AND EXPLANATIONS We have noticed a great variety of superstitious beliefs and practices connected with Moorish marriages. Sometimes divination is resorted to by the young man's mother in choosing a suitable wife for her son.1 Sometimes the girl prevents a betrothal which she finds ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X SUMMARY AND EXPLANATIONS We have noticed a great variety of superstitious beliefs and practices connected with Moorish marriages. Sometimes divination is resorted to by the young man's mother in choosing a suitable wife for her son.1 Sometimes the girl prevents a betrothal which she finds objectionable by making use of bad and ominous words or by behaving like a woman at a funeral.2 The transference of conditional curses by means of 'tfr-sacrifices is a common method of bringing about a betrothment;s and even when no such sacrifice is made it is considered bad if the girl's father or parents persist in refusing a proposal.4 In some Berber tribes the fear of l-ar has led to a custom which makes it possible for a married woman to run away from her husband and, by taking refuge in another man's dwelling, compel the latter to marry her.6 The wheat which is to be used for the wedding, and which has been cleaned in the bridegroom's house, must not be taken to other houses to be ground; for it would be bad to do at a wedding what is regularly done at a funeral 1--a feeling which also prevents honey being served at a wedding.2 On the other hand, it is supposed to bring good luck if the bachelors who are present on the occasion when the wheat is cleaned and ground now and then take part in the grinding and singing.8 A superstitious importance is attached to the grit which has been removed from the wheat; it is put in a clean place so as not to be defiled,4 or it is thrown on the floor of the bridegroom's dwelling in order that the wedding shall be attended by many guests,5 or the bridegroom casts it together with dried fruit on the bride when she approaches the door of his house,6 or it is disposed of in some other manner still to be...
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