Saint / folklore
Droit du seigneur (Sagranella)
The lord’s claimed right of sexual access to the women of his estate.
In the book
Said, at Sagranella, to be still practised as a matter of course on the neighbouring big estate, whose steward reportedly feels a prospective woman worker’s muscles before hiring her for a sixteen-hour day.
Appears in 1 diary entry.
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September 3 1944Following Don Ubaldo's death, the section relocates to a remote, archaic hill village with its own strange local fox-cult ritual.
reported to be practised as a matter of course on the neighbouring estate, where the steward is said to feel a prospective female worker's muscles before employing her
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