Post by Emperor AAdmin on Dec 28, 2011 1:34:39 GMT -5
I was reading Montenegrin daily "Vijesti" and came across this article and did a little research and found same thing in English titles the same way or "Bizarre Wedding Traditions Around the World"
www.vijesti.me/caffe/bizarni-obicaji-sa-vjencanja-sirom-svijeta-clanak-53550
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here are some
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www.environmentalgraffiti.com/cultures/news-7-most-bizarre-wedding-traditions-world
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www.environmentalgraffiti.com/cultures/news-7-most-bizarre-wedding-traditions-world?image=1
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www.environmentalgraffiti.com/cultures/news-7-most-bizarre-wedding-traditions-world?image=2
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www.environmentalgraffiti.com/cultures/news-7-most-bizarre-wedding-traditions-world?image=3
also from Scotland
traditionscustoms.com/wedding-traditions/strange-wedding-traditions
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www.environmentalgraffiti.com/cultures/news-7-most-bizarre-wedding-traditions-world?image=4
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www.environmentalgraffiti.com/cultures/news-7-most-bizarre-wedding-traditions-world?image=5
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traditionscustoms.com/wedding-traditions/strange-wedding-traditions?page=2
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traditionscustoms.com/wedding-traditions/strange-wedding-traditions?page=3
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www.weirdworm.com/5-insane-marriage-rituals-from-around-the-world/
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www.sheknows.com/love-and-sex/articles/848675/8-wtf-marriage-rituals-from-around-the-world
Unrelated: I came across also about their history and ancient practice of cannibalism (perhaps caused by depleted resources)
www.gutenberg.org/files/14384/14384-h/14384-h.htm
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www.sheknows.com/love-and-sex/articles/848675/8-wtf-marriage-rituals-from-around-the-world
www.scribd.com/doc/74472735/Planet-Wedding-A-Nuptialpedia
gettingit.com/article/477
Objavljeno: 27.12.2011
UKOLIKO PLANIRATE VJENČANJE
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www.vijesti.me/caffe/bizarni-obicaji-sa-vjencanja-sirom-svijeta-clanak-53550
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here are some
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India: Marrying an Animal
Indian wedding
Even though it's not the most popular time of year to have a wedding, I allowed my thoughts to wander and consider the most unusual marriage rituals across the globe. The realization came that there are many fascinating cultures out there with some intriguing beliefs surrounding nuptials and marital bliss.
In the image pictured here is an Indian woman. As beautiful as the picture is, women have been known to be forced to marry animals in India. Why? In some parts of India it is believed that ghosts can inhabit certain people of the living world. Most notably, girls who are born with a baby tooth already erupted through the gum and girls who are very ugly or have some facial disfiguration are believed to be possessed by ghosts.
The only way to exorcise the ghosts is for the girl to marry an animal, typically a goat or dog. Even though there is a lavish wedding ceremony complete with booze and dancing, the girl is not expected to copulate with the animal – which is good news! She is free to marry a man later on, when the ghosts are proven to be rid from her. I wonder who makes this decision and how they come to their conclusion.
www.environmentalgraffiti.com/cultures/news-7-most-bizarre-wedding-traditions-world
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Greece: Nibbling a Biscuit Around a Boy's Neck
I'm not certain whether this can be defined as creepy or just inappropriate: a young Greek bride ritually celebrates her nuptials by grabbing a young, pre-pubescent boy and forcing him onto her lap. Then, she bites the biscuit ring that surrounds his neck off and finally releases him from the neck nibbling.
The bride is then whisked away by her new husband who takes her to their humble abode. The front door of this home is doused in honey and other sticky substances. The bride is expected to throw pomegranates at the door. If any of its seeds stick to the door, she is believed to bear many sons.
I've had a hard glance at my front door recently and it looks like the same thing happened to it. I can tell you from personal experience that you don't have to have sons or be Greek to have a dirty front door!
Written by Asher Kade
www.environmentalgraffiti.com/cultures/news-7-most-bizarre-wedding-traditions-world?image=1
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Korea: Carving Wooden Ducks
In Korea, it is customary for grooms to request that their successfully married friends carve them wooden ducks as a token of great marital bliss.
Hand-carving a wooden duck can't be easy. This leads me to wonder whether many of these wooden ducks are 're-gifted' along the way. Also: why a duck and not another animal?
www.environmentalgraffiti.com/cultures/news-7-most-bizarre-wedding-traditions-world?image=2
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Scotland: 'Blackening' the Bride
As if men wearing skirts isn't enough comical fodder, listen to this. Scottish men apparently love their women raw and dirty. This conclusion of mine comes from the fact that before a bride is to marry the love of her life, she must endure public humiliation by being "blackened".
Yes, you heard right. Anything from farm animal poop, to sticky food substances like molasses, to flour – basically, anything available – is dumped on the bride. I can only assume this gets the bride ready for the brutal reality of marriage. Either that, or Scottish men have a fetish for smelly women. Here's a video to flesh out any curiosities you may have about the blackening of the bride.
Written by Asher Kade
www.environmentalgraffiti.com/cultures/news-7-most-bizarre-wedding-traditions-world?image=3
also from Scotland
For the next tradition let's move to Scotland. There is an old Scottish tradition called "feet washing". It is held on the eve of a wedding. People gather to wash the feet of a bride-to-be. Before the ceremony the ring belonging to a married woman is put into a tub. The first person who is going to find the ring is going to be married next.
"Creeling the groom" is an old Scottish wedding ritual where the groom carries big basket full of stones on his back. He has to carry it until the bride comes and gives him a kiss.
traditionscustoms.com/wedding-traditions/strange-wedding-traditions
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Mauritania: Fattening the Bride
Imagine being as young as 5 and already your parents are sending you off to a fat farm where you are forced to eat too much food until you vomit. Then, the wrinkled hag watching every portion you eat forces you to eat that vomit. This is not a reality T.V. show. This is really happening in some parts of Africa.
The practice is called Leblouh and is mandated in these parts of the world so that women will be considered attractive to their future mates. Men on this side of the globe want women fat; the fatter the better. It doesn't matter if it ruins their health or make them live shorter lives. All that matters is that the woman is as large as possible in order to sell her for a high price when she reaches the age for marrying. I wonder if the dowry depends on tonnage?
Written by Asher Kade
www.environmentalgraffiti.com/cultures/news-7-most-bizarre-wedding-traditions-world?image=4
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Malaysia: Not Going to the Bathroom
In this part of the world, it is not permitted for the groom or the bride-to-be to go to the bathroom 72 hours before the wedding. The Tidong people are so serious about the ritual that it has been going on for centuries. They actually watch their loved ones during the entire 72 hours to make sure they don't "cheat". The couple is starved and given little water.
The belief is that if the couple survives this torture, they will not only have abundant fertility, but that none of their children will die. In a way, this also makes sense because the pain of not being able to urinate or poop for 3 full days and nights is comparable to the hardships of marriage many face.
There you have it folks, some of the strangest wedding traditions I could find.
Written by Asher Kade
www.environmentalgraffiti.com/cultures/news-7-most-bizarre-wedding-traditions-world?image=5
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The Tujia people, with population of more than 8 million, live in central China. Crying is regular part of weddings there. A month before the wedding, a bride cries for about an hour. Ten days later, she is not alone in her daily weeping ritual. Her mother joins her.Ten days after that, her grandmothers, sisters and aunts join them too.
Tuija bride-to-be performs something what is locally known as the "Crying Marriage Song". She weeps in different tones. What is the reason for all these tears? Actually, local believe that this tradition is actually a celebration of happy future for the couple. Tears and mournful atmosphere are there to mislead you.
traditionscustoms.com/wedding-traditions/strange-wedding-traditions?page=2
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The Gelao (Gelo) people live in the Guizhou Province located in the southwest of China. They call themselves Klau. For the Gelao girl it is not good to be a virgin. It is believed that the girl who gets married as virgin is a bad luck for the family and her future husband. That is why, to become less attractive to local guys, the girl who is still virgin knocks out one or two of her teeth.
When Gelao bride arrives to her new home she splash some water over the people there. It is done to scare evil spirits and bring good luck.
traditionscustoms.com/wedding-traditions/strange-wedding-traditions?page=3
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Bride Kidnappings
Practiced in: The Roma communities (all over the world)
Most unions can trace their beginnings to that one special night at a frat kegger when the couple first met their gaze in a crowded room and forever cemented their fate by a quicky in the backseat and a broken condom. Some cultures however decided to skip all this romantic crap and go from the “total strangers” phase straight to marriage in one messed-up leap of criminal activity: kidnapping the bride.
The Romani, also known as Gypsies, for centuries have had this tradition, that if you manage to forcefully kidnap a girl and keep her by your side for 2-3 days, she officially becomes your wife. Long ago this probably made a lot sense, as it helped you avoid buying the bride off the parents or having Thanksgiving dinner with them every year. But even in this day and age it’s not viewed as anything strange in the Roma culture, and many women simply go with the fact that the overweight guy, who cornered them with a bottle of chloroform at a McDonald’s lady’s bathroom, is now the love of their life.
Some of you are probably wondering, how in the f**k is this legal? Well, it’s a cultural practice of a large ethnic minority and most governments would rather start flossing with razor wire than to commit the PR equivalent of suicide by banning a minority tradition.
www.weirdworm.com/5-insane-marriage-rituals-from-around-the-world/
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Marquesas Islands
Planning a destination wedding to Tahiti? Just make sure you don't bring stilettos! On the Marquesas Islands, it is tradition at the end of a wedding reception for the bride and groom to walk all over their friends and family. Seriously, everyone lies down and creates a "human carpet" that the couple has to tread through to get to the door and be sent off on their honeymoon. This is according to the book Planet Wedding: A Nuptual-pedia, and no explanation behind the meaning of this could be found.
www.sheknows.com/love-and-sex/articles/848675/8-wtf-marriage-rituals-from-around-the-world
Unrelated: I came across also about their history and ancient practice of cannibalism (perhaps caused by depleted resources)
www.gutenberg.org/files/14384/14384-h/14384-h.htm
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South Africa
Now this is actually a ritual a lot of families probably wish they could adopt. According to the book Planet Wedding: A Nuptual-pedia, in South Africa, hostility is a good ol' family tradition. During the wedding ceremony, the groom's side and the bride's side chant insults back and forth at one another, each time getting more hurtful.
www.sheknows.com/love-and-sex/articles/848675/8-wtf-marriage-rituals-from-around-the-world
www.scribd.com/doc/74472735/Planet-Wedding-A-Nuptialpedia
In South Africa, families of the bride and groom take turns before the ceremony singing insulting hymns ("Your son is too poor to marry our daughter;" "You treat your daughter so badly, but now she will be treated like a queen") at each other.
gettingit.com/article/477