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Re: On Courtesy Classes
Poster: Nordaim <samann@cs.millersv.edu>
> I beleave I read somewhere the custom of handshaking was to show not that one
> was unarmed but rather that one did not have a weapon in hand, or something
> like that.
If I remember this one correctly (and the story is correct), the
handshake was an attempt to shake loose any weapons that a person may have
had fastened to their wrist.
I don't know, just sharing my mind.
Scott (Alfred Grai)
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