Curses!!
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 3:46 pm
I'll try to make this long story short.
Next month on August 30th it will be the 360th anniversary of the annulment of my 9th great-grandmother, Marie Pontonnier's, first marriage.
Why am I posting that here on halloween.com?, because that marriage was annulled by the church because it was ruled that the couple were unable to produce children because a member of their wedding party cursed them by tying two knots in a rope during their wedding vows.
Apparently that was how a witch, or sorcerer, could render a couple barren.
The attached image is from Parish records from what is now a Catholic church in Montreal.
Her second marriage didn't fare too well either. That short-lived coupling was decoupled rather unpleasantly by the Iroquois.
Third time being the charm, grandma got hitched to Grandpa and 310 years later the world was blessed with my presence.
Next month on August 30th it will be the 360th anniversary of the annulment of my 9th great-grandmother, Marie Pontonnier's, first marriage.
Why am I posting that here on halloween.com?, because that marriage was annulled by the church because it was ruled that the couple were unable to produce children because a member of their wedding party cursed them by tying two knots in a rope during their wedding vows.
Apparently that was how a witch, or sorcerer, could render a couple barren.
The attached image is from Parish records from what is now a Catholic church in Montreal.
Her second marriage didn't fare too well either. That short-lived coupling was decoupled rather unpleasantly by the Iroquois.
Third time being the charm, grandma got hitched to Grandpa and 310 years later the world was blessed with my presence.
