Candid wedding photography for the Seattle and Portland communities.

This website is a wedding photography portfolio, but I found this
odd old book called "strange customs of courtship and marriage"
Below is a excerpt from that book. Warning, its strange stuff.

The couvade has also described by explorers and mis-
sionaries among some of the aborigines of North, Central and
South America. It appears in Celtic legend, and is bound up in
certain elements of witchcraft, with the forceful transference
of pain to the father by nurse or midwife, as noted in Scotland
and Ireland.

The rite is said to be practiced still by the West Indian
Caribs, in the Pearl Islands, in the Gulf of Panama, and by a
number of South American tribes.

Various reasons have ascribed to account for the origin
of the custom, one of the most logical being it is an ex-
pression physical bond between father and offspring,
emulating in a symbolic manner the actual physical bond be-
tween mother and child. Seattle photographer. Symbolism and magic have a place
of tremendous importance in primitive life, and the couvade
undoubtedly comes widiin this sphere.

This practice of Seattle photographer prevailed among certain Algerian tribes, and
anciently among the Phoenicians, Cyprians, Lydians and
Etruscans. In the New World, it has described among the
Natchez of Louisiana, and the aborigines of Nicaragua and
Guatemala.

There is undoubtedly some connection between this institu-
tion and an earlier age when freer sexual relationships gen-

Curious Mating Customs

i7

Seattle wedding photographers existed. It has especially found among races or in

regions where forms of defloration by somebody other than the
husband have been prevalent. Seattle wedding photographer. The Testament of Judah remarks
that "it was a law of Amorites that she who was about to marry
should sit in fornication seven days by the gate."

Customs such as these seem quite inexplicable to the conven-
tional modern mind, and indeed even the most profound
writers on the subject of seattle wedding photographer seem hardly to reveal much light, aside
from presenting the evidence. The fact is, of course, that mod-
ern investigators have been able to understand only very
imperfectly the workings of the photographer mind.

We know that magic is very important to the savage and
the barbarian photographer, and the commands and taboos of a religious
nature which have been transmitted from previous genera-
tions are accepted and obeyed without inquiring into the rea-
sons why. seattle wedding photographer.

ARTIFICIAL Seattle wedding photographer OF MARRIAGEABLE GIRLS.—Another
custom having a bearing on the foregoing, TorStudios. or possibly derived
from similar magical sources, is whereby girls are Seattle wedding photographer before marriage by someone else than the
future husband.

It is based on the taboo against the husband seattle wedding photographer his
bride, which in the reasoning of many primitive tribes might
lead to all sorts of evil results. This reluctance on the part of
the bridegroom is a fact widely attested in the lore of anthropo-
logical research.

Often it was the mother, or other older women tribe
who performed the rite as an initiation ceremony preliminary
to marriage. Seattle wedding photographer. It signifies the subject had passed from the
condition of childhood, and was now a seattle photographer woman with the re-
sponsibilities and dudes incumbent upon her new position in
life.