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100			_aArnott, Stephen _eauthor
245			_aEating Your Auntie Is Wrong : _bThe World's Strangest Customs / _cby Stephen Arnott
250			_aFirst published in 2004
260			_aNew York : _bRandom House ; _c2004 .
300			_a175 pages : _billustrations ; _c16 cm .
505			_aS
520			_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.
521	8		_a790 _bLexile estimate
521	8		_aS _bRaz-Plus
650			_acultural studies _vnon-fiction
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