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I don't know if any of you have read Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but the book revolves around the murder of a man accused of taking another man's bride's virginity. The 'proof,' according to the woman's brothers, was that her wedding bed was not soiled--in order to restore her honor, they had to kill the man who took their sister's virginity. But, the interesting part about the book is the chapter devoted to various folk methods of fooling a groom on the wedding night--vials of blood were often the most popular.
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