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Show A Singular Marriage -Custom. The Kurds have a very curious and somewhat dangerous marriage custom, which one would think would be more honored in the breach than In the observance. ob-servance. The husband, surrounded by a bodyguard of twenty or thirty young men, carries his wife home on his back in a rcarlet cloth and is desperately assaulted as-saulted the whole way by a number of girls. Sticks and stones are hurled at the bridegroom, who in the coming home with his bride can hardly be considered con-sidered a very happy man, for the irate amazons often Inflict on him marks which he carries to the grave. It may be that among the lady pursuers are some of the bridegroom's former, "flames," who turn the mock attack into downright earnest to avenge slighted slight-ed love. |
