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eralding the holiday,/Season in Kanee is St. Barbara)/Day, December 6th, when watersoaked wheat grains are placed in dishes and set to germinate. An old folk legend predicts fast, growing grain to mean good Crops for the craning year. / ' /The • rpfigious accent is strong upon sdf French Christmas customs. A miniature nativity ’ scene, called a “Creche”, is arranged by , th/children and placed in the lividgroom. The creche is artistically /lighted for the magnificent religious services when age-old hymns are sung, incease burned ,and bells’ Tung. Following the midnight mass, all partake of “reveillon,” a luxurious meal of oysters and spec! wines and sausages. lai i A giant wicker figure, “Melchior,” named after one of tfee Three Magi, has a basket on his back and ’ is dressed in fantastic garb. Strapped to a donkey, he is paraded from dpor to door to gather whatever foods the generous may give. A candle is Lighted at the church which beckons all the poor of the parish to come and receive of these gifts brought to the church by Melchior.
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