Transylvanian divorce

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When we visited Transylvania's last gothic fortified church in Biertan (now a UNESCO World Heritage Site) they told us how the Saxons who lived there used to deal with the couples asking for a divorce.

To ensure that the husband and wife really thought things through, they were required to live together for two weeks locked up in a tiny room with one single bed, a single plate, just one fork, a single chair, etc. The guide got really excited telling us that it worked so well that although many couples got locked up for two weeks, there was only one divorce while the practice was in use. I just had to ask how many of the rest of the cases ended up in murder trials instead. They did not have that statistics.

Comments

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Ha! I was thinking the same sort of thing reading this..How many ended in murder or serious injury? 

But I suppose marriage is supposed to be "'till death do us part." 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

I think most of us these days will be thinking the same but apparently it worked then.

[vikingessa.livejournal.com]

Oooh...that is interesting.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I also thought so. It was an interesting place to visit.

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's like... The worst idea ever.

[topum.livejournal.com]

That was my reaction too. That's why asked how many people got murdered in that room.

[prorsus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, don't see this working.

[topum.livejournal.com]

They told us that apparently it did. I am sceptical too though.

[rockingthemike.livejournal.com]

i feel like this should be a requirement before you get married.

[topum.livejournal.com]

But then we will all die alone and be eaten by our cats.

[rockingthemike.livejournal.com]

only if you don't make it the two weeks. ;)

[topum.livejournal.com]

I think we don't even need to lock people up together, just taking their phones (and all other means to go online) away for two weeks should be enough ).