MARRIAGE AMONG THE ITALIAN PEASANTRY.
When a girl of the lower class marries, she has to undergo another ceremony. She has to dragged by force out of her maiden home. The struggle begins in her own little room, to which she must cling with all her strength crying and beseeching her friends (nil married women) to leave her there, “thatshe can never leave her home,” etc., etc. She clutches her bedpost in her despair, and shrieks when she is torn from it, then she clutches the door, then the staircase, chairs, tables, everything, till she reaches the outer door, when her struggles compel her friends to carry her away by main force. If she does not do this, she is accused of being an immodest girl; the more she struggles the greater her virtue will be accounted. She must provide all the linen of the boose, besides her own body linen, and also a complete bed with bedding. She must also furnish the bridegroom’s shirts, while he provides the furniture of the house and the bride’s dress and jewelry. — Rome Coir. American Register.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1112, 14 November 1883, Page 3
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