Blood Brotherhood

A strong bond of solidarity is symbolically represented--particularly in pre-Islamic and Islamic culture (mu?akhat) and in some areas of equatorial Africa--by a ritual that enacts a sort of biological fraternity: two individuals, through self-inflicted wounds, mix their blood, thereby establishing a fictitious kinship.

In the Middle Ages, the practice of brotherhood-in-arms was common among knights who swore mutual loyalty and support

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