. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . or wood-women. Thesefaery creatures are said to liveduring the winter in the huts occu-pied by human beings in summer, and theyouth in question made his way to oneand hid under a tub. Unluckily the Huld-ren smelled human flesh, like the giant ofour youthful days, and when a maidenpointed at him the youth scratched herfinger and drew blood. Thereupon thewhole party surrounded him and insistedthat he must now marry the girl, becausehe had marked her with blood. There wasmore than one objection to
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . or wood-women. Thesefaery creatures are said to liveduring the winter in the huts occu-pied by human beings in summer, and theyouth in question made his way to oneand hid under a tub. Unluckily the Huld-ren smelled human flesh, like the giant ofour youthful days, and when a maidenpointed at him the youth scratched herfinger and drew blood. Thereupon thewhole party surrounded him and insistedthat he must now marry the girl, becausehe had marked her with blood. There wasmore than one objection to this course, animportant item being that the fair maidenhad a tail; but there was nothing else for it, and fortunately when the bride was bap-tised, her tail fell off like a tadpoles, andthey lived happily ever after. Another widely spread custom is thatknown to the Romans as Confarreatio, theeating of the round sacrificial cake by thebride and bridegroom. This, too, is aHindu marriage rite, and the remarkablepart of it is that the pair eat together atthe wedding for the first and last time in. Photograph by y. Kroiherel, Aosta, Italy^ HAlR-DRESSlNG IN AFRICA. their lives ; for one of the strange ritualprohibitions which are often called tabus forbids them to take their meals with oneanother thereafter. This custom of eatingtogether to symbolise the union in marriagemust have been widely spread in Europe,too, if we may judge by the strange survivalsat the present day. In one part of Francecustom decrees that the newly-marriedcouple shall partake of a dish of which theingredients are a cock and a cat; and inmany parts of Germany it was the customfor bride and bridegroom to partake of the 20 \\0-MEN OF ALL NATIONS
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