2 The Hungarian bigamist was forced to live with both women under the same roof.

3 The northern Siberian woman showed interest by throwing slugs at a man.

4 In central Africa, among the Banyanoke, while visiting friends husbands exchanged wives for the length of the stay.

5 In parts of India, a man owing a debt to another could have his wife taken from him until the debt was paid.

6 In ancient Greece, Sauromatrian women didn’t marry until skinning three enemies.

7 Same locale, after the delivery of a new child, the Corsican father would take to his bed to rest as if he was the one who had gone through labor. South American mothers had to be very restrained in childbirth. If they moaned or groaned, the newborn child was killed.

8 In Persia, if a boy seized a girl, cut off a length of her hair, tore away her veil and threw a sheet over her announcing her as his wife, he was formally engaged.

9 Among the natives of Jebel Nyima in Nubia, a male was not eligible to take a bride until he committed murder.

10 In some parts of Brazil, the most prized bride was the girl who was a good gardener and made good beer.

11 In the Santal tribe of India, a man could claim a girl as his wife if he dabbed her on the forehead with red paint.

12 In India, a Kolarian girl who wanted a certain man as her husband had only to go to his house and sit down inside. He was then obligated to marry her.

13 A Basongye woman in the Congo, attracted to a man, would confront him with a series of insults and putdowns. That’s when he knew she was in love with him.

14 The South American Goajiro girl had only to trip her intended during a ceremonial dance to let him have sex with her.

15 In Serbia and Bulgaria, a peasant man proposed to a woman by grabbing her ankle and tripping her to the ground.

16 The ancient Greeks had little taste for marriage. At one time, it was more common to legally adopt a woman than marry one.

17 In the first century B.C., the ancient Briton woman was wed in her finest clothes while the groom was naked.

18 In the Marche district of medieval France, the bride-to-be had sex with every man she met on the way to the church.

19 The Masai groom of East Africa was obliged for a full month after his wedding to wear his wife’s clothes.

20 Butan women had to carry their husbands on their backs while traveling.

21 In the Poulh Indian tribe, the married man wasn’t allowed to look at his mother-in-law. In southeast Australia, the penalty for talking to one’s mother-in-law was death.