According to Nicholas Sander, the religiously conservative Howard family may have seen Catherine as a figurehead for their fight by expressed determination to restore Roman Catholicism to England. Catholic Bishop Stephen Gardiner entertained the couple at Winchester Palace with "feastings". As the King's interest in Catherine grew, so did the house of Norfolk's influence. Her youth, prettiness and vivacity were captivating for the middle-aged sovereign, who claimed he had never known "the like to any woman".
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The cycle consists of stories of the births, early lives and training, wooings, battles, feastings, and deaths of the heroes and reflects a warrior society in which warfare consists mainly of single combats and wealth is measured mainly in cattle. These stories are written mainly in prose. The centrepiece of the Ulster Cycle is the Táin Bó Cúailnge. Other important Ulster Cycle tales include The Tragic Death of Aife's only Son, Bricriu's Feast, and The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel.
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Leaving Amboina on 14 October, Bruni d'Entrecasteaux made for Cape Leeuwin, the south-western extremity of Australia, to carry out his original instructions of searching southern New Holland for La Pérouse. On 6 December land was sighted near Cape Leeuwin, and named D'Entrecasteaux Point. This event was celebrated by feastings and parties, one result of which was that the smith on board Recherche, Jean-Marie Marhadour over-indulged and died next day from an apoplectic fit. The weather proved boisterous, and the ships failed to find King George Sound, originally discovered by Vancouver.
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This > beautifying of their persons, with frequent feastings, lasts the whole day, > but towards evening the real ceremony begins. They dance round the pit they > have dug, shouting, singing, and some few whistling (this they never do in > their common corrobories), and thus they continue all night long, each in > turn snatching a few moments for rest and gormandising. Every figure of > their dances, every gesture, the burden of all their songs, is calculated to > inflame their passions. The pit is so dug and decorated with bushes as to > represent the private parts of a female: as dance they carry the spear > before them to simulate priapus: every gesture is obscene, and the character > of the songs in vogue on such occasions may be understood from the > following, which may be translated by means of the vocabulary: ::Bool-lie neera, Bool-lie neera, :: Bool-lie neera. Wad-a-ga.
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Philippine Muslim (Tausug) Marriages on Jolo Island, Part Four: Weddings and Divorces, zawaj.com After the period of engagement has lapsed, the marital-union ceremony is observed by feastings, delivery of the whole bridewealth, slaughtering of a carabao or a cow, playing gongs and native xylophones, reciting prayers in the Arabic and Tausug languages, symbolic touching by the groom of his bride's forehead, and the couple's emotionless sitting-together ritual. In some instances when a groom is marrying a young bride, the engagement period may last longer until the Tausug lass has reached the right age to marry; or the matrimonial ceremony may proceed – a wedding the Tausug termed as “to marry in a handkerchief” or kawin ha saputangan – because the newly-wed man can live after marriage at the home of his parents- in-law but cannot have marital sex with his wife until she reaches the legal age. Tausug culture also allows the practice of divorce.
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