Before Wedding, Fiance Must Bathe Seven Days With Sweetheart

The wedding was days away, and my fiance took a knife to his own wrist. I was shaking all over from the fright, and I rushed to stop him. He pushed me away, his face weak and pale. "Penny, don't stop me. Let me cut." "Why?" I wouldn't let go, not for anything, and his buddy told me, eyes red. "Our village has a wedding custom. In the seven days before a man marries, he has to bathe together with his childhood sweetheart for seven days, to wash away the bad luck, so he can bring good fortune to his wife." "If he doesn't follow it, then he takes a knife and cuts off seven pieces of his own flesh as punishment."