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Charivari
Charivari was originally a French folk customIt was also sometimes used as a form of social coercion, to force an as-yet-unmarried couple to wed. In charivari, people of the local community gather around to "celebrate" a marriage, usually one they regard as questionable, gathering outside the window of the couple. They bang metal implements or use other items to create noise in order to keep the couple awake all night. Sometimes they wear disguises or masks.Later it became a form of protest against socially disapproved marriages, for example the marriage of widows before completing the 13socially acceptable period of mourning. In the early 1600s, the Council of Tours forbade charivari and threatened its practitioners with excommunication. Nevertheless, the custom continued in rural areasThe origins of the word "charivari" are likely from the roman caribaria, meaning headache or the greek kerebaria: kera (head), barys (heavy), named for the effect of the cacophony on the hapless newlyweds. 
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