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| Throughout the Christmas sea[■
son many dramatic remembrances \
| of the story of Christ’s birth are
j enacted. ^From dawn until after j sunset on the day before Christmas Z | boys visit neighboring homes to •
| sin? a Christmas greeting. “Colin* ; [ dr,*” fee which thev'receive apples. { cakes, and coins. On Christinas Dav they parade through the street, carrying a great yrooden cross which is hun«r with tinkling bells; The star is illuminated from with* in by a candle, and is decorated with a fa^sd'encv of the Baby jesus and the Magi Kings.
Roast sie Js .the "rincinal fend of the Christmas dinner, and is served with “col»c?.” A wheat loaf, end a symbolic cake called “turta”. Layers of thin dough are shaped to form fern's which s-e reprosentative of the Christ Child’s swaddling clothes.
An rinc’ent; but still “practiced Rumanian custom is "Blessing the Danube.” Clad in gay costumes to depict Pontius Pilate. Herod and other bibical characters, the people gather af‘ffie river bank to sing carols. A vmingjvjy breaks the ice and a wooden cross is thrown into the water. AH scramble after it, for the rescuer will have extraordinary fortune in the coming year.
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