RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
February 16, 2024 at 5:13 am
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2024 at 5:17 am by Anomalocaris.)
The custom of carrying the bride over the threshold dates back to a Roman tradition, which in turn arose from the rape of Sabine Women, a episold in the legendary history of Roman in which the male founders of city of Rome violently kidnapped the women of nearby cities and carried them home to the new city to found the later population of Rome.