Gossipred · Atlas

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Spiritual Relationship“Gossipred”1 mention

Lectures on the Early History of Institutions (English)

But by the side of Gossipred, or Spiritual Relationship, there stood another much more primitive institution, which was extraordinarily developed among the ancient Irish, though not at all peculiar to them.

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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom19th Century · English

A form of fictitious spiritual kinship between sponsor and godchild, used among South Slavonians to bar intermarriage or reconcile feuding parties.

But perhaps the most singular illustration of the tendency of kinship to extend itself artificially under the empire of primitive ideas is to be found in certain Slavonic forms of gossipred or spiritual relationship.

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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions19th Century · English

Doctrine of sponsorship-based spiritual kinship that generated marriage prohibitions and, in Ireland, close assimilation to natural kinship.

But by the side of Gossipred, or Spiritual Relationship, there stood another much more primitive institution, which was extraordinarily developed among the ancient Irish, though not at all peculiar to them.

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You know, I dare say, that Spiritual Relationship or the tie between a sponsor and a baptized person, or between sponsors, or even between the sponsors and the family of the baptized, became by degrees the source of a great number of prohibitions against intermarriage, which stood on the same level with those based on affinity, and almost with those founded on consanguinity.

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