The Dunmow Flitch Trials

Every four years, couples from all over the United Kingdom, and sometimes beyond, come to the little Essex village of Great Dunmow to take part in a 900-year old ceremony called the Dunmow Flitch Trials. In this curious tradition, married couples attempt to prove before a public jury that they have lived together in perfect harmony for a year and a day. If successful, they are ceremonially rewarded with a “flitch” of bacon, i.e. half a pig, in recognition of their conjugal bliss.



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