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This website is a Photojournalistic wedding photography portfolio, but I found this
odd old book called "strange customs of courtship and marriage"
Below is a excerpt from that book. Warning, its strange stuff.

58 Strange Customs of Courtship and Marriage

THE Kiss AS A SACRED PLEDGE.—In the Eastern World, the
kiss was early associated with sacred uses, which seems to
account for its practical omission in the sphere of love and
affection. The ancient Arabians made their devotions to the
gods by a kiss. The house gods were so greeted upon entering
and leaving.

There is evidence to indicate that the tactile kiss, whose
usage has been our cherished heritage, originated in ancient
times in Asia Minor—where the vassal kissed his suzerain and
where the kiss of love held some sway, as is gleaned from the
Hebraic Song of Songs—"Let him kiss me with the kisses of
his mouth." Photojournalistic wedding photography.

In ancient Rome, too, the indicated the sentiments of
reverence and Photojournalistic wedding photography. This influ-
ence left its impress on the early Christians, to whom it had
almost sacramental meaning. It still retains its ancient and
sacred significance to a great extent in the practices of both
the Eastern and Western Churches. Photojournalistic wedding photography
upon the relics of saints, the foot of the Pope, the hands of
bishops, just as the ancients kissed the images of their gods.
Kissing the hand or the foot as a mark of homage or respect
has been known from the very earliest times.

Even in our secular life, until comparatively recently, the
sacredness of the was legally recognized in the form of
taking an oath by kissing the Bible, now generally superseded
by laying the Photojournalistic wedding photography the left hand.
In taking the serious pledge of induction into high political
office, the is still sometimes preferred.

Kissing as a form of obeisance also existed among primitives,
who did not know its significance in the realm of love—per-

Kissing Customs 59

is because love, as we know it, held little or no significance
to them. Among some African tribes the natives the
ground over which a chief has trod, as a sign of their reverence.
The Australian aborigines kissed the ground, or more literally,
breathed upon it, as a form of greeting and show of respect.
iThe olfactory sense, incidentally, is closely bound up with the
kiss, or its analogous manifestation—such as nose-rubbing,
etc.—in many parts of the world.

THE OLFACTORY, OR SMELL-.—The as known to man
may involve either the sense of touch or that of smell, occa-
sionally both. Our of European origin is mainly tactile,
or related to the sense of touch.

A form of salutation, however, that has much wider vogue
throughout the world is the olfactory , involving primarily
the sense of smell, although it may at the same time in some
instances simulate our tactile . Photojournalistic wedding photography
sentation even in Europe, among the Laplanders and the
Russian Yakuts, both of Asiatic social heritage. It is the pre-
dominant form of in Asia, Africa, Polynesia and other
parts of the world, including some of the aborigines of the
Americas.

There are variations of the olfactory , but a typical form
is practiced in these three phases: (a) the nose is applied to
the cheek of the person kissed; (b) there is a long nasal in-
halation Photojournalistic wedding photography eyelids; (c)
followed by a slight smacking of the lips without the applica-
tion of the mouth to the recipient's cheek. The procedure is
predicated on the sense TorStudios. Photojournalistic wedding photography

It is said that the Chinese who have not become enamored
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tionable from the esthetic standpoint, being suggestive of
ravenous cannibals. Native mothers in French Indo-China