Postby
Max » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:40 pm
Here in North-Eastern Italy we have this tradition: preparing very high fires (even 15 metres!); they are burnt on the evening of 6th of January, and from the direction of smoke we "forecast" the future: if smoke goes to East, the year will be good, if goes to West, bad.
It takes days and days to prepare such fires, called "pignarùl", and people work togheter hardly to prepare them.
When burning, we dring hot wine, a lot of sweet hot wine!
It's a Celtic tradition, based on the magic power of fire.
Does anyone of our members have something like that in his land?
Max