OLD SHOES AT WEDDINGS
It has long been a custom to throw old shoes at the bride and bridegroom when they quit the bride’s home, after the wedding breakfast, or when they go to church to marry. Some think that Ibis represents an assault, and refers lo tlie ancient notion that the bridegroom carried off the bride with force and violence. Others look upon it as a relic of the ancient law of exchange, implying that the parents of the bride relinquish all right of dominion over their daughter-. When the Etnperor Waldimir proposed marriage to the daughter of Ragnald, she rejected him, saying, “I will not take off my shoe to the son of a slave.” In Anglo-Saxon marriages the. father delivered the bride’s shoe to the bridegroom, who touched her with it on the head to show his authority. In Turkey the bridegroom after marriage was chased by the girls, who either administered blows by way of adieux, or pelted him with slippprs.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 January 1931, Page 2
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165OLD SHOES AT WEDDINGS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 January 1931, Page 2
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