On 29-Okt-97, James Ruhland (jruhlconob@sprynet.com) wrote about Re:
[BIRTHRIGHT] - Various empires:

I wasn't finished when I managed to send the previus mail....

- ->Even if you did this (what you're thinking of, I believe, is the midieval
- ->practice of "Prima Nocta") it would depend on who raised the children;
- ->children raised in the mother's family would be *highly* unlikely to have
- ->any respect or love for the person (and the government who supports 'em)
- ->that raped their mother.
Yes, the children would usually be raised by the mother, but it would make the
child to wonder about his father and would be suspected by the others in the
society if he/she are a spy for the conquerers or/and getting some kind of
priviliges from the conqurers. This makes that the conqurered people will get
somewhat more eager to start a rebelion as they will not be sure what thise
"bastards" would do.
After some generations thise half-conqueres would feel more as citicents of
the new country than the old.

Prima Nocte has the disadvantige that the half-concurers can feel hatred
against the conqurers and make the rest of the populatione more supressed by
the occupiers which can lead to a really bloody rebelion. We can see how it
did go in Scottland where Prima Nocte was practised (it wasn't the one and
only reasion for the scottish rebelion, but surely it helped many males to
join the rebelion).

//Trizt of Ward^RITE

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