Re: Ceremonies of property transfer

[Mark Schuldenfrei <schuldy@abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU>]

Poster: Mark Schuldenfrei <schuldy@abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU>

                                 And to that end,
  they'd get a healthy young boy who seemed to have
  a long life ahead of him, and give him a good
  box in the ears to make sure he'd remember the
  day.

One gentle around here as documented several practices along those lines,
including thrashing a child, having two knights exchange buffets, or inverting
the children and thumping their heads on the ground...

	Tibor
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