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rakovsky maybe posted:As the story goes my Sicilian great-grandfather and great-grandmother were in love but their families wouldn't allow them to get married. So one night my great-grandfather captured my great-grandmother and hid her in the roof of a barn. All night her brothers searched for her but they couldn't find her. When the morning came he let her go, but since she had spent the night with a man she had to marry him. Well, it may be that or it may be not... that phenomenon is, was, called "fuitina" (little escape), and basically in the early 20th century rural Sicily it was the only way two lovers who wanted to marry could override their families wishes: they eloped, spent a night and then went home. If you dishonored a young woman her father and his brothers would have to choose between: letting you marry the girl or instead kill you with the murder basically going unpunished (killing for the family honour was considered a petty crime until 1981) keep your bastard son around and keep the daughter at home unmarried. limaCAT fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Nov 20, 2015 |
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