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If a modern person looks at his wife’s betrayal with some understanding that there’s nothing to be done – you have to endure or leave, then in ancient times a woman could easily do such a thing to pay with life, if not to say about the worst punishment. True, each nation had its own approach to solving this Problems.
For example, the Mongols simply chopped a traitor into two halves – and all the short life. An historical fact is also interesting: the ancient Danes for adultery punished a woman with death, and for murder – only fine.
In the Tonkin Kingdom and Siam to punish unfaithful wives resorted to the services of elephants: in the first case, the elephant simply trampled traitor, in the second – through a special device copulated with her, which for a woman was tantamount to death, only more painful.
But in the small African kingdom of Luango still the traitor’s wife, along with her lover, is thrown off a cliff, maybe not officially, but they say there are such cases …
The ancient Gauls with an unfaithful wife acted quite humanely: they smeared it with mud and dragged her feet around the city. In eastern Roman Empire sinner was offered in the market square to everyone passerby. And in ancient Greece (with the exception of Sparta) to kill a traitor could not only her husband, but almost every man.
True, many nations could judge the unfaithful wife only the spouse – and all responsibility for this rested with the husband. Not by chance men with the help of this right often simply got rid from bored them spouses.
Aborigines of Canada scalped traitors, and savages Guax-Toliam (America) chopped up an unfaithful wife into pieces and threw them at the feet of the leader, after which all those present had to eat traitor’s meat.
There is a female criminal in Diarbekir (and adultery is here considered the worst crime) executed by the whole family, with this, each member of the family had to hit her with a dagger, that is, it committed not only her husband, but also parents and even children.
At the same time, the story keeps deathly silence on the account of how the man was punished for adultery. How how? But no way …
It is no coincidence that today, a woman’s betrayal is regarded as a kind of a moral decline, but a man’s betrayal is like some kind of valor. The echoes of the past, as we see, are strong to this day …
