Once, a jilted woman drowned her former lover in a torrent of rain.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Uglei
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@juergen_hubert The sex and the pregnancy are not mentioned, but very present. Serves him right
Out-of-wedlock childbirths also show up fairly frequently in such folk tales.
@juergen_hubert probably not with good endings?
@juergen_hubert oh no...
I wonder what the reality was for unmarried pregnancy in medieval (ish?) Europe
Well, my specialty is 19th century Germany, not the Middle Ages. But there was a _lot_ of pressure to get married, and being pregnant at the altar was not that uncommon.
The following folk tale also mentions "mantle children", where children of the bride were hidden beneath a mantle during the wedding:
@juergen_hubert Legitemacy is one thing... but the issue of the abandoned pregnant common girl is what I'm thinking of. Were they really abandoned by everyone? Or did the family / community take care of them?
What reality these tales reflect?
