The world is full of weirdness, full of things that could be injected (without modification) into a Fantasy/New Weird novel or short story without breaking stride, and by using customs like these a world becomes fleshed out, and far more real.
The past is a foreign country, as they say, and while the world is a weird place now, it used to be even weirder…
Creeling the Bridegroom is a good example of weird customs from the past. Coming from Medieval Scotland (and practised until the beginning of the 19th century), creeling the bridegroom was a custom where the husband-to-be was tested by his future parents-in-law – by carrying a sack of rocks around their village until his bride decided he had had enough, and told him so with a kiss. The bride could also be ‘creeled’ but in a different fashion – a chamber pot was filled, with salt…
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