Ever heard of a tribe's ancient code enforcing peace, faith, and revenge? The Vasojevići tribe's 12-point law is raw, unfiltered tradition. Dive into this fierce set of rules. 🏔️⚖️ 🔽
Point First: Brotherhoods of Vasojevići and Srbljaci must make peace, no excuses. Force the unwilling. A man's head: 300 groš. Woman's: 301. Blood prices set in stone. 💀 🔽
Point Second: No new mosques, abandon old ones. Return Muslim converts to ancestors' faith. Beat resisters freely. New converts? Treat as Turks from now on. No mercy. 🔽
Point Third: Help border-folk in attacks or lose spoils, brides, marriages. Kill or rob Kolašin citizens without Slatina's knowledge? Owe blood to Slatina while at peace. 🛡️ 🔽
Point Fourth: Caught stealing from Serbs? Pay double plus aldermen's court costs. Steal from Turks? Blessed be it. Cursed if undetected among kin. Justice bites hard. 🪓 🔽
Point Fifth: Robbers? If you're their friend, guilty as them.
Point Sixth: Branković traitors spilling aldermen's secrets? Vanish forever. Skip elders for foreigners? Guilty. 🚫 🔽
Point Sixth cont.: Go to Skadar's vizier? Don't return, or face logs. Repent or disappear. Loyalty to tribe above all, no appeals to foreigners. 🔒 🔽
Point Seventh: Don't touch caravans, let roads guide them. If you do? Pay up fast. Hold goods till alderman judges, or nearest honest man if absent. Fair play. 🛤️ 🔽
Point Eighth: Priests/monks in battle: shave beards, wear tribal dress or no ammo. Women are God's, not Satan's. Slanderers? Damned eternally. Priests chasing women to be castrated. ⚔️ 🔽
Point Ninth: Turks pray on their land only, chase off yours with force. Ascension Day: crosses on non-Christian land till next day. Witch hunters: 15 days under logs. If bastards are drowned? You get stoned. 🔽
Point Ninth cont.: Work holy days? Spoiled by devil, pay costs. Blacksmiths: hammer anvil pre-Christmas sunrise or tools broken, family exiled. 🔽
Point Tenth: Abandon house/family? Lose all battle honours.
Point Eleventh: Only tax is voivode's - 2 groš per chimney. No more. Simple burdens. 🏠 🔽
Point Twelfth: Vasojevići land spans Nožica to Lješnica, Bjelasica to Ružica peak and Brezojevica church, trapped amid Turkish towns like an adder in fire. Timeless defiance. 🔽
Read the full text with explanations of archaisms at Books of Jeremiah: booksofjeremiah.com/post/law-vasoj…
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