About the article
N.V. Zanegina
This article continues a series of publications on freedom of marriage in the past and on the evolution of the «abduction» tradition, which was popular with our ancestors. In a previous study, the bride’s abduction ritual was considered. What is the origin of this rite? What reasons made our predecessors in different regions of the world imitate the abduction of a girl in the process of marriage?
marriage, family, custom, the ways of marriage.