Show A MARRIAGE the ceremony I 1 ind alade ip with an tho wedding ceremony among aio oio is interesting because of its comparative resemblance to the customs of the old greeks and romans and even to those which still prevail in t parts ot france it is tho girla father who exacts a wedding portion a sum of about 8 for which tho bridegroom has generally to rely upon tho advances of his friends often too tho young man has not a house for his bride in which case ca se bis friends set to work and build one no very difficult matter the wedding day tho bride is led through tho villages in tho neighborhood mounted on a mule and escorted by friends and relations who shout and firo guns again and again alie various hasten forth to offer her a ful of beans nuts or dried alga of those she takes a handful which she kisses and then replaces in the sieve all alie offerings are collected in sacks by tho old women of the procession as contributions to tho young peopled peo larder at the bridegrooms house alio girl bands are washed with liquid butter then they give her porno fresh eggs which phe breaks on the mules head and inside the unhappy animals ears thereby it is believed counteracting any evil designs against her and lier hub happiness before entering the house she drinks milk fresh and bour and also water and scatters over her shoulder a handful of barley wheat and salt for the good of the family the husband then approaches her and flics n pistol above her head to signify that thenceforward bo has the power of alfo fand death over glicr not infrequently ho makes the symbol oven more emphatic by firing into her headdress and betting her aflame this done little remain except for the youth to lift alio lady ia his arms and carry her bodily into bis house all the year bound |