Kaleena Westaby
Fun Facts #3
April 2, 2010
Scottish Customs
banns of marriage – church would announce the wedding in church for three successive Sundays
creeling the bridegroom – having the groom carry a large basket filled with stones on his back
from one end of the village to the other until his bride came out of her house and kissed him
threshold – groom would carry new bride through the door to protect her from the evil spirits
thought to inhabit the threshold of the door.