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Many -of Russia’s traditions’ have been lost and forgotten, but family reunion's and parties for the children during the Christmas sea-' sop still remain. At these reunions, an old custom, the Five Piles of Grain, is enacted. At midnight, a sleeping hen is taken from the roost and brought into the kitchen On foe floor are five, piles of grain each one representing a legen&^of the five fates: Wealth, Poverty "i^estth, Marriage, and a life of Single Blessedness. While foe hen & still sleepy, its befuddlement causes great merriment and langhter, but as the hen awakens and senses.foe grain, she selects foe piles, one by
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