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Handfasting is a term for a wedding ceremony in Neopaganism, especially in Wicca. ==Origin of the term== ''Handfasting'' is a historical term for "betrothal" or "wedding". In the Early Modern history of Scotland (16th and 17th centuries), especially in the Hebrides, the term could also refer to a temporary marriage. The term has come to be used as a replacement for "marriage" in the vocabulary of Neopaganism, especially in Wicca.〔 OED recognizes the following senses of the term, # Engagement to be married, betrothal; the ceremony in which this formally takes place. ( ''now historical'') # An uncanonical, private, or (esp. in Scotland) probationary form of marriage # Now also: a form of marriage practised in neopaganism, Wicca, etc. The sense of "probationary form of marriage" is recorded for 1541. Thomas Pennant in his ''A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides 1772'' explicitly records the custom as being "now obsolete".〕 The verb ''to handfast'' in the sense of "to formally promise, to make a contract" is recorded for Late Old English, especially in the context of a contract of marriage. The derived ''handfasting'' is for a ceremony of engagement or betrothal is recorded in Early Modern English. The term was presumably loaned into English from Old Norse '' handfesta'' "to strike a bargain by joining hands"; there are also comparanda from the North Sea Germanic sphere, Old Frisian ''hondfestinge'' and Middle Low German ''hantvestinge''. The term is derived from the verb ''to handfast'', used in Middle to Early Modern English for the making of a contract.〔"handfasting, n." and "handfast, v." OED Online. November 2010. Oxford University Press. "Old Norse hand-festa to strike a bargain by joining hands, to pledge, betroth" The earliest cited English usage in connection with marital status is from a manuscript of c. 1200, when Mary is described as "handfast (to) a good man called Joseph". "?c1200 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2389 "Ȝho wass hanndfesst an god mann Þatt iosæp wass ȝehatenn."〕 The term "handfasting" or "hand-fasting" has been in use in Celtic neopaganism and Wicca for wedding ceremonies from at least the late 1960s, apparently first used in print by Hans Holzer.〔"My wife and I were married by the handfasting ceremony, and it was most controversial." - Hans Holzer, ''The Truth about Witchcraft'' (1969), p. 172; "Then I learned that the "special meeting" was, in effect, a wedding ceremony called "hand-fasting" in Wicca." Hans Holzer, ''Heather: confessions of a witch'', Mason & Lipscomb, 1975, p. 101.〕 It was popularised by the 1991 movie The Doors, depicting a fictional version of the real 1970 handfasting ceremony of Jim Morrison and Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (with the real Patricia Kennealy-Morrison playing the Celtic Pagan priestess). The expression "handfasting" is also found in newsgroup discussions from the early 1990s.〔rec.music.music "Jim Morrison was a vampire?", 21 July 1991 (); alt.sex.bestiality, 19 August 1993 (), alt.pagan 10 May 1993 ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Handfasting (Neopaganism)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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