Chastity ordeal: poisonous snake around girl's neck

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Chastity ordeal: poisonous snake around girl's neck.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Chasity tests. · Chastity test by magic objects or ordeals. · view the constellation · filed as H412.5

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IndiaThompson-Balys.

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