Levirate Marriage
Levirate marriage is a tradition related to posthumous marriages or ghost marriages. In a Levirate marriage, the brother of a deceased man is obligated to marry his late brother’s widow.
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“For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?—Yes, we should believe it.”
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