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Month: January 2014

Medieval Marriage, Handfasting and Wedding-Highlights 2013

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Eheleite.com wants to say thank you very much to all of the 24 spouses and to the total of 1.180 guests of the year 2013.

Also in this year, travelling through the country and being together and celebrating with our bridal couples, jubilarians and their guests, has been a great pleasure to us. Every medieval marriage, every pagan wedding, handfasting, birthday or name consecration gave incredibly much joy to us! It was lovely meeting you nice people and celebrating and designing your weddings together with you.

For a couple of weeks, all of the 12 bridal couples of the year 2013 can be seen here again – until we will start the new wedding year with a celebration to the Celtic Alban Eilirin on 20 March.

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Pagan Customs: Pelting Millet

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With the end of antiquity millet established itself as a staple food throughout Europe. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras advised it and even Attila, king of the Huns, is said to have served solely millet to his guests. The porridge that flows over the edge in Grimm’s well-known fairy tale of the Sweet Porridge (“The Magic Porridge Pot”) consists of millet and millet forms the delicious mountain range of the “land of milk and honey”. Therefore, millet stands as a symbol for food and material prosperity.

Hence a pagan custom was still practiced in the late Middle Ages: Friends and relatives pelt the bridal couple with millet to wish wealth and material blessing for the newly-married couple in this way.

As fruitful, as the millet prospers, wealth and material goods shall grow for the bridal couple and approach them from all sides.

Video about Pelting Millet