Chastity ordeal: holding shaven and greased tail of bull

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Chastity ordeal: holding shaven and greased tail of bull.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Chasity tests. · Chastity test by magic objects or ordeals. · view the constellation · filed as H412.2

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general Wade-Evans Welsh Mediaeval Law (Oxford, 1909) 241.

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