Germanische Sonnenwendfeier (Urgermanenzeit) by Fritz Koch-Gotha & F. E. Wachsmuth 1930s
"They live, therefore, fenced around with chastity; corrupted by no seductive spectacles, no convivial incitements. Men and women are alike unacquainted with clandestine correspondence. Adultery is extremely rare among so numerous a people. Its punishment is instant, and at the pleasure of the husband. He cuts off the hair of the offender, strips her, and in presence of her relations expels her from his house, and pursues her with stripes through the whole village. Nor is any indulgence shown to a prostitute. Neither beauty, youth, nor riches can procure her a husband: for none there looks on vice with a smile, or calls mutual seduction the way of the world. Still more exemplary is the practice of those states in which none but virgins marry, and the expectations and wishes of a wife are at once brought to a period. Thus, they take one husband as one body and one life; that no thought, no desire, may extend beyond him; and he may be loved not only as their husband, but as their marriage. To limit the increase of children, or put to death any of the later progeny is accounted infamous: and good habits have there more influence than good laws elsewhere."
-Tacitus, Germania
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| Germanische Sonnenwendfeier (Urgermanenzeit) by Fritz Koch-Gotha & F. E. Wachsmuth 1930s from Leipzig. |
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| The one from Saarländisches Schulmuseum. I assume the original? |
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http://saarland.digicult-museen.net/objekte/5624
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