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Another borrowed Sephardic custom involves participants hitting each one another with scallions representing taskmasters' whips during the reading of the phrase, "When we were slaves in Egypt".
A common custom involves drinking kava, a mildly narcotic drink made from the ground-up root of a pepper plant.
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A highly regarded custom involved the use of iron devices, such as girdles or chains, placed around the loins, neck, hands, and feet and often hidden under garments.
In the early 1990s, there was a public spa attached too, and a largely Jewish community went there for regular schmiessing sessions – a Yiddish custom involving a sauna, a towel whip, and plenty of camaraderie.
I never witnessed such myself, but this custom involved all of the girls at the cusp of puberty in a village lining up outside of a hut in which an older male was stationed; in turn, each girl would enter the hut to be "deflowered" by the man.
This exhibition examines methods of production and drinking customs involving wine and beer, both in religious and secular contexts, on special occasions and every day.
Mortuary customs involved ledges for displaying grave goods, coffin chambers, and the burial of animal teeth, pig heads, and pig jawbones.
In Terry Pratchett's Discworld there are Twelfth Night customs, involving a man who "finds a special bean in his tucker, oho, everyone says 'you're king mate' and he thinks 'this is a bit of all right' only next thing he's legging it over the snow with a dozen other buggers chasing him with holy sickles so's the earth'll come to life again and all this snow will go away".
Many of these customs involve scenarios unfolding between me and a male actor.
These customs involved preserving the body by mummification, performing burial ceremonies, and interring with the body goods the deceased would use in the afterlife.
The situation for these women was far more workaday and closely familial than for those in the royal seraglio, and Croutier's description of the customs involved are very special...and even personal.
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