In some cities in England to this day, the original custom of acts: the one who will give the oath on January 1 not to quarrel with his wife and keep it for a year, receives the bacon at the expense of the city.From 1144 to 1908 the award was given to only eight men.
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-The terrible oath Arabs is not considered an oath by Allah.There was one oath which Muslim men, with the wealthier they are, the stronger the oath of divorce with all their wives.
-I ancient Japanese was the custom to write the text of the oath of a strip of paper that klyavshiysya burned, and the ashes ate.The Japanese believe that in the case of perjury ashes turned into poison.
-Kuptsy in the old days used to swear out loud to himself and to renounce from said oaths.For example, when the oath "bursting eyes" himself added, "lamb" to vow "not survive the day," added "dog."A vow to "otsohni hand" in mind added letter B ("otsohni sleeve").
-Vsem famous Hippocratic Oath.After this oath, doctors are licensed for medicine.However, some physicians deny this oath and this Israeli physicians.The Hippocratic Oath is not cultivated in Israel because of the pagan content: "I swear by Apollo-healer, Gikiey and Panacea, Asclepius and Hecate ...".(this is - a crime against the first and second commandments of Judaism: "I am your God. You shall have no other gods before me").And in general, as our doctors joke, after the adoption of a doctor Hippocratic oath on his neck "prolonged stethoscope", and put the lives of a large red cross.
-By Flemish old legend, one day of a rich nobleman Brussels missing son.The search was unsuccessful, and then the desperate father begged God vowed that if his son was there, he will set up a golden statue of him in the form in which it was found, and dedicated it to all the saints.Son found.Write.
-In restaurants horn hanging over the bar, and which brings such an oath: "Do not eat black bread, if you can get white, do not drink weak beer, if there is strong, not to kiss the maid if you can kiss the mistress, and the best kiss both".
-Klyatva pheasants was perhaps the most faithful among the knighthood.Admire pheasants knighthood, not just fried.They feed them to the loud sounds of horns and solemn rhetoric herald.And because pheasants became a symbol of the highest nobility.
-The medieval Europe, to make oath that the person had to lay his hand on the Bible.But in ancient Ireland a man committed ritual oath, his right hand on his (sorry!) Manhood.
join international unions Bald, established in 1965 and employs about 250 people, recite the oath not to change her hair with his hand on a billiard ball, after which their heads watered brandy.
-The most solemn vow from the natives of New Britain was: "If I lie, let me happen to shake the hand of his own mother-in ...".And in general, they say that the most unbreakable oath at all times, was struck on the gravestone: 'I swear that I do not get married! ".
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