No marriage is legitimate without a liberal consumption of tesvino by all parties present at the wedding.

Hunting and fishing expeditions are accompanied by beer-drinking to insure luck.

No matter how many times the Tarahumare changes his abode in the course of his life, he always makes tesvino when moving into a new house or cave.

Even the dead would not get any rest, but come back and harm the survivors, if a quantity of tesvino were not set aside for them.

In fact, there is absolutely no act of importance that is not, in one way or another, connected with the drinking of this beer.