Talk:Blood brother

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Are the Native Americans really descended from the Mongols?

-- Haha.. I had the same question when I read this page. Truthfully, they may be long lost cousins... but the hypothesis was only ventured within the last century, so there is probably still a lot of work to be done to verify it. Someone correct me if I'm wrong please. :)

I removed it, they are separated by hundreds of generations. The custom has nothing to do with their descent, it's a common custom. Neutralitytalk 05:14, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Please don't put the stub tag on talk pages... --Jemiller226 05:07, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] How?

How do you become a blood brother then? you have to be a prostachte lol !

[edit] Gender biased

I have allways percived it a gender neutral concept, besides switching genders depending on who comittes the ritual. Then of course you call it blood sisters. This terme for the same concept amongst females is widely accepted if you do a search.

(It was common when I grow up in the 80's among girls in Sweden, same as for the boys doing it, we were influenced mainly by american cinema and books. And I expect it is even more well known now. As an of course often gender specific but still, general concept.)

I understand there's a lingvistic problem. In my language we have a gender neutral word as well, for the relation sisters and brothers. Wich would be the pov way to describe it. I don't know that word in english if there is one?

That's also what we would call it when a female and a male exchange blood in this way or think of them selves as blood ..kin?

So if anyone has an idea how to improve this article, the name of the concept and more gender neutral text, who has more accurate knowledge in english please. It's much needed! (polite understatement)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.219.2.127 (talk • contribs) 21:25, 6 June 2007.

The term is "sibling", but it has a clinical and dispassionate connotation that ill-suits the topic. --Peter Farago 07:41, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
maybe change the title to "sworn sibling", are there any terms in English describe sworn kinship as "being parents and children" (not "godparents" because this relationship is irrelevent to Christianity)?--219.79.143.5 03:48, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
I wholly disagree with the IP's ridicules arguments.

- Aemaeth —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.48.185.54 (talk) 01:33, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Laughable sentence

In addition to the danger of blood loss or infection, blood brotherhood-type ceremonies pose a high risk of hepatitis and HIV infection.

There are many things wrong with this, not including the fact that it is not even cited (such scientific claims need scientific backing). First, HIV did not enter Europe,North America or the Middle East until at the earliest the 70's / 80's, a period in history long after most blood-cut methods of being a blood brother were conducted. Secondly, a small cut in the finger or forearm will not pose much of a high risk and even if it did, it would be a low risk infection if it was the finger. If it was the forearm, I don't know, but without citations, no one can say if it is or isn't high risk.Tourskin 04:04, 15 July 2007 (UTC)


I say we remove that line. It is largely irrelevant. Without a source of infected brothers, then, no need to mention what is blown out of porpotionly obvious. - Aemaeth

[edit] Fictional vs. historical?

Just wondering, why is there a list of fictional blood brothers but not historical ones? And further, why are Yesukhei and Toghril listed as fictional? As far as I know, they're real people... Khanele (talk) 22:56, 29 April 2008 (UTC)