Harem, for us Europeans, something from the realm of science fiction. In our understanding of the harem also absurd, as for the people of our free life. Today we will discuss the medieval harems. Got in a harem of girls in various ways. If to speak about the Turkish harems, the true Turkish women were there, one, two and far between. Mainly in the harem of the fall of the prisoners girls from different countries. Wives of the sultans, too, were mostly girls not from Turkey. Getting into the harem of girls entirely separated from his previous life and names. Depending on the beauty, nature, talents and abilities girl getting the name, the most describing her personality.
Harem rendered its captive only two ways out: either to become a favourite of the Sultan, or accept and quietly shut up and carry out the daily work, or die of boredom.
In the harem could not get any one man, it was a purely female place.
the author Julio Rosati "Choice of the Sultana"
Harem rendered its captive only two ways out: either to become a favourite of the Sultan, or accept and quietly shut up and carry out the daily work, or die of boredom.
In the harem could not get any one man, it was a purely female place.
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In the harem of the access only eunuchs. If the girl won the honor to spend the night with the Lord, it was considered a great happiness." It was made in the most careful way. Led to a Hamam (bath), rubbed spices, whole body, and dressed in the most luxurious clothes. If she liked him, then she became the mistress and had their own quarters. If the girl held with the Sultan only one night, she had a sad and boring fate. The most intelligent and strong became the wives of rulers, the stupid and the unlucky vegetated of melancholy.
The life of the harem was more complex than one might think at first glance. Even after becoming a wife of the ruler, it was possible for the slightest fault lose his life, and if the Sultan is a new concubine, then you can safely wear a bag on his head. So how rarely the sultans were kind of guy and remembered his former mistresses.
In order to survive in the conditions of the harem, the need to be not just beautiful, but also a skillful lover, intelligent and cunning, that do not interfere, and in the current difficult life.
In General Paradise harem became only for the elect, and hell for rejected.
The life of the harem was more complex than one might think at first glance. Even after becoming a wife of the ruler, it was possible for the slightest fault lose his life, and if the Sultan is a new concubine, then you can safely wear a bag on his head. So how rarely the sultans were kind of guy and remembered his former mistresses.
In order to survive in the conditions of the harem, the need to be not just beautiful, but also a skillful lover, intelligent and cunning, that do not interfere, and in the current difficult life.
In General Paradise harem became only for the elect, and hell for rejected.
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