In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
ERINYES
Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes
(noun) (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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