Widows

They go on to draw out three ways that Grooms tend to perish at the hands of these women: 

• A. drowning on the way home from the pub,
• B. a tragic shaving accident, or
• C. an ill-conceived hangover cure, which locals claim is why the year and a day wedding ceremony was instituted.

The Widows of Clan MacThoy categorically deny the claims that they murder their husbands or their men  startingly short-lived.

One Widow said they could not be blamed "if the heart led them to less than Robust Men on occasion."*

The Clan further claims that the stories of the Husbands being murdered are flimsy attempts to discredit the Clan and make the women of the family somehow less acceptable to potential suitors. 

"Obviously another Puritan conspiracy to undermine matriarchal society," claimed a Clansman, stating that he had been married into the Clan for seven years and had yet to suffer any ill effects.-- ed.

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*Recently the magazine Discover published an article expressing a similar theory:

. . .females control matting, and they often have an irresistible attraction to the male with the equivalent of the red bull's-eye on his side.  That is, they seem to select males for traits that make them less likely to survive. . . .

Richard Conniff, "Why We Take Risks," Discover, 2001.

Most curiously, damage has been done via an error in folk etymology of the word "Widow."

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