Re: Benefits to Agriculture of Gloranthan Rituals & Blessing

From: Simon Phipp <soltakss_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 21:17:47 -0000

Andrew Larsen:
> During his divorce proceedings, Henry VIII claimed that God had cursed
> him because he had slept with his (late) brother's wife, Catherine of
> Aragon, which by church law was a form of incest. This, he said, was
> the reason that Catherine had had her miscarriages and given birth
> to a deformed child who died soon after birth. In Glorantha, Henry
> VIII would definitely have been cursed for incest.

It all depends on what the clans involved define as incest.

I can see a clan where the woman comes into the clan as part of the clan's family considering a brother's wife as kin.

However, a clan where the men join the clan when they marry a woman from the clan might think that the husband's brother does not belong to the clan, so it is not incest. In fact, they might think that the brother is the best person to marry the woman, as it keeps family ties as they were before the death of the brother.