SHOE=THROWING CUSTOM
Throwing a shoe after a newlymarried couple as they drive off for their honeymoon is an old custom to bring luck/ In Anglo-Saxon times the father of the bride handed one of her shoes to the bridegroom, who touched her on the head with it as token of his newly-acquired authority. This custom is still carried on in some districts today—the bridegroom using one of the bride’s shoes to give her a good-humoured spanking. With the Jews of old the removal and giving a shoe confirmed a sale or exchange — hence in (he past the shoe thrown at a wedding symbolised the transfer of property.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20844, 30 June 1939, Page 3
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107SHOE=THROWING CUSTOM Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20844, 30 June 1939, Page 3
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