India: Ritual defloration, as pictured in the travels of Sir John Mandeville. Illustration by Otto von Diemeringen, c. 1484. Ritual defloration, as pictured in the travels of Sir John Mandeville (1484 edition): 'Another isle is there, full fair and good and great, and full of people, where the custom is such, that the first night that they be married, they make another man to lie by their wives for to have their maidenhead: and therefore they take great hire and great thank'.

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