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It's from the middle ages, the King and feudal lords had the right to sleep with a
bride on her wedding night. It goes back to very old pagna fertility rituals, where
the king was chosen for his fertility and was sacrificed after a period of I think 7
years. I believe this was
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"Robert F. Tatman" wrote:
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> Kelly, to the best of my knowledge, this "first night" custom was a survival
> from the medieval *jus primae noctis* [apologies if my Latin is bad] or "law of
> the first night," under which the seigneur of the manor (usually a bar
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Kelly, to the best of my knowledge, this "first night" custom was a survival
from the medieval *jus primae noctis* [apologies if my Latin is bad] or "law of
the first night," under which the seigneur of the manor (usually a baron in
England) had the right to insist on sleeping wit
