How would you like to be welcomed to married life by friends and neighbors descending on your home for a noisy celebration, tearing off the labels of all your canned foods and scattering cornflakes in your bed? That tradition has almost died out...
The adjective gadarene means headlong or precipitate, as in a gadarene rush to pass questionable legislation. It comes from a New Testament story about Jesus in the land of the Gadarenes, where demons are cast out of a possessed man and enter a herd...