Isaiah 40-55 prophesied that the Persians would carry off Babylonian women and cultic statues.

They carried off the wealth and women and burned half of what they did not take".

They also carried off several women, including Chryseis, who became the concubine of Agamemnon.

A sorcerer took the form of a beggar and carried off young women.

It is told that in 1768 a Dakota war party raided an Ojibwe village and carried off several women in their canoes.

"They carry off women and sell them to the Others."

The Taliban rampaged through the area in the summer of 1999, emptying towns, executing young men, carrying off women, burning houses, machine-gunning livestock, sawing down fruit trees.

Forbids carrying off women under pretense of marriage (eloping).

Wildlings come over the Wall or through the mountains, to raid and steal and carry off women.

However, records indicate that the Mexicas were forced into servitude as punishment for raids by young warriors to carry off women from neighboring settlements.