What is Bride kidnapping?
[[File:Evariste-Vital_Luminais_-_Pirates_normands_au_IXe_siècle.jpg|link=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Evariste-Vital_Luminais_-_Pirates_normands_au_IXe_si%C3%A8cle.jpg/238px-Evariste-Vital_Luminais_-_Pirates_normands_au_IXe_si%C3%A8cle.jpg|alt=|thumb|313x313px|A depiction of [[Vikings]] kidnapping a woman. Viking men would often kidnap foreign women for [[marriage]] or [[concubinage]] from lands that they had pillaged. Illustrated by French painter Évariste Vital Luminais in the 19th century.]] [[File:Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_083.png|link=//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_083.png/220px-Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_083.png|right|thumb|Benjaminites seize wives from Shiloh in this 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. There were not enough women available for marriage after the high losses in the Battle at Gibeah.]] '''Bride kidnapping''' is when a man abducts the woman he wants to marry.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Captured Hearts|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/articles/2017-06-captured-hearts/|access-date=25 July 2019|website=www.nationalgeographic.org|archive-date=12 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712111332/https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/articles/2017-06-captured-hearts/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The practice is also known as '''marriage by abduction''' or '''marriage by capture''', Bride kidnapping (which is often shortened to '''bridenapping<ref>{{Cite web|date=9 October 2011|title='Bridenapping': a growing hidden crime|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/bridenapping-ndash-a-growing-hidden-crime-2367811.html|access-date=25 July 2019|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref>''') has been practiced around the world, throughout history. Peoples as diverse as the [[Hmong people|Hmong]] in [[Southeast Asia]], the Tzeltal in Mexico, and the [[Roma people|Romani]] in Europe have done it.