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Speaking again about this record -- can anyone tell me what the "sun" symbol means to the left of the record? I sometimes see this symbol on various records. Sometimes the letters NB are contained inside the circle (Nota Bene?).

Jean (USA)
 
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- can anyone tell me what the "sun" symbol means to the left of the record?
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The "sun" is a "Strohkranz", a "crown" made of straw, the bride has to wear during the wedding ceremony, as a sign that she is not a virgin, see e.g. https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb00108585?q=("strohkranz&page=110,111

"In Nuremberg law, the original offence was usually referred to as unzucht, whereas Bavaria used the term leichtvertigkeit for fornication between unmarried persons in the language of the Carolina (*);... The male part was the fornicant (from the Latin fornix = fornicator, but also "a dwelling place of public prostitutes located in underground vaults"), i.e. a fornicator / extramarital impregnator, the fornicaria a fornicator / extramarital impregnated woman; Joh. Christ. Aug. Heyse: Fremdwörterbuch, 12th ed. Hanover 1859, p. 362. - If the fornication was preceded by a promise of marriage, a marriage could be demanded if the fornicant was available and single.

In any case, however, both 'parts were liable to an indecency penalty (for burghers usually 2-3 weeks' imprisonment in the tower, for better people also fines, for non-locals also expulsions in addition to the hole) and a discriminatory copulation (= marriage by the clergy), for example through a ban on wreaths or the straw wreath. If the fornicant refused, he could be forced by the courts; if such a forced copulation was carried out in a hole, it was considered particularly dishonourable."

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutio_Criminalis_Carolina
 
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