Successful suitor must have whitest hands. Blacksmith qualifies because of frequent washing of hands

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Successful suitor must have whitest hands. Blacksmith qualifies because of frequent washing of hands.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Suitor tests. · Suitor tests. · view the constellation · filed as H312.4

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general Herbert III 86.

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Filed under Physical and mental requirements for suitors.

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Successful suitor must have the prettiest hands; not whitest, but dark with scars and gold rings

Filed beside it

Successful suitor to be without blotches Successful suitor must have gold teeth Suitors chosen with feet as only part seen Successful suitor must have cheeks like blood, skin like snow and hair like a raven. (Cf. Z65.1.) Suitor test: correct wearing of clothes Suitor test: to be able to go through a wall Bridegroom-to-be has to have three pecks, three quarts of gold and an animal with a horn on his head pointing to the sky, and a large red hair

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