That is interesting. The tying of the hands seems to be common to a number of different cultures. I was over in what was then Yugoslavia a number of years ago while Tito was still alive. I had a chance to travel through what is now Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia on my way to Belgrade (Beograd). It was interesting to travel from the urban areas of Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb and Rejetka into the more rural areas. In the rural areas it felt almost like you were stepping back 100 years...cars were almost unheard of at the time in the back lands...there were still guys walking around in jack boots who had daggers in their sashes.

I remember reading of a blood feud between two families in Dubrovnik that had persisted since before World War II. Made the Hatfields and the McCoys look like a Sunday school meeting. land on the Dalmatian Coast is at a premium. Wind off the Adriatic Sea blows away much of the top soil. It is very rocky soil. The time of the feud's beginning predated communism, and the system of inheritance was to divide the land equally among the children. Consequently, the estates became smaller with each generation. The story went that a neighbor trespassed on to a farmer's property. The farmer hit him in the face with a shovel, and killed him. The two families decimated each other for decades. When I was there it was reported that one of the families had taken refuge in a multi story house in Dubrovnik. They were afraid to come out of the house for fear of being killed. They would lower a basket on a rope from the second story each day  to one of the neighbors who would shop for them. The sad part was that there were several generations living in the same house, and they kept having children. They knew that it was only a matter of time until some members of the family would be forced to leave to seek another refuge. I never did learn how the feud ended...if it ever did.