01596nam a22002297a 45000010005000000030006000050050017000110080041000280200019000690400029000880820008001171000029001252450087001542500028002412600039002693000044003085050008003525200923003605210029012835210020013126500034013324744FISKH20240927101528.0240927b        cb ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a97800091892418  aFISKHbengcFISKHdFISKH  a390  aArnott, Stepheneauthor   aEating Your Auntie Is Wrong :bThe World's Strangest Customs /cby  Stephen Arnott  aFirst published in 2004  aNew York :bRandom House ;c2004 .  a175 pages : billustrations ;c16 cm .   aS 
  aCrossing continents and centuries Stephen Arnott brings us invaluable information about all kinds of bizarre regional customs - from sexual practices to the received wisdom on cannibalism - that could save you from embarrassing local faux pas while travelling.- Amongst the Tartars the relations of the bride and bridegroom would traditionally divide into two groups and fight each other until some had suffered bleeding wounds. It was thought that causing blood to flow in this way would ensure the couple had strong sons.- In Hungary a cure for infertility was to beat a barren women with a stick, the stick having previously been used to separate mating dogs.- In some Aboriginal tribes of New South Wales it was believed that men who had any contact with their mothers-in-law would suffer terrible hard luck. The threat was so great that married men even avoided looking in their mother-in-law's general direction.8 a790 
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