Such cacophonous serenades were traditionally considered especially appropriate for second marriages or for unions deemed incongruous because of an age discrepancy or some other cause.
Vance Randolph’s Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales (1945) includes an account of a similar ceremony used to pillory what the community deemed inappropriate sexual behavior: in “The Girls From Joplin”, the women of Honey Creek, Missouri drive two big-city sex workers out of town in a Walk of Shame to the tune of clanging pots and pans. (“Told by an elderly gentleman in Neosho, Mo., February 1928. He thought that it was a true story, and said that such incidents were not uncommon in the 1890’s.”)
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Date: 2024-02-04 03:30 pm (UTC)Vance Randolph’s Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales (1945) includes an account of a similar ceremony used to pillory what the community deemed inappropriate sexual behavior: in “The Girls From Joplin”, the women of Honey Creek, Missouri drive two big-city sex workers out of town in a Walk of Shame to the tune of clanging pots and pans. (“Told by an elderly gentleman in Neosho, Mo., February 1928. He thought that it was a true story, and said that such incidents were not uncommon in the 1890’s.”)