Prior to the 17th century Ukrainian girls are the right guys to propose themselves . At least on this tradition mentions in his ” Narrative Ukraine » French engineer and cartographer Guillaume Levasseur de Boplan …
In some Slavic territories to the 17th century survived such an interesting tradition initiated when the marriage was a girl , not the guy . This custom was observed in GM – L.Boplana , who wrote: “In Ukraine , as if in spite of all nations , not svatayutsya boys to girls , and girls are offering them a hand and rarely reach their goal , it helps kind of superstition , which is strictly guarded … “. Describing this ordinance , Boplan noted that young girl who fell in love with the young lung, came to him , that is his home , when the whole family together and asks the guy to marry her , and his parents – to agree to marry . Parents were forced to give his blessing and even urged his son to marry a girl and fall in love with her , because she is such a tenacity lends guy happiness. And most importantly, to deny a girl – was deemed to incur the wrath of God. So beware guys!