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A STORY BEHIND A TRADITION

A STORY BEHIND A TRADITION

Written by: Fadi Dawood
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 A Story Behind A Tradition team is always on the look for traditions from around the world and how they came to be and the story behind them. Some are very cool and some are weird, and some might be very scary that will keep you awake at night.© 2022 A STORY BEHIND A TRADITION Art
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  • Episode 1 - Pregnant women over fire, cinnamon birthday, jumping over babies !!

    Episode 1 - Pregnant women over fire, cinnamon birthday, jumping over babies !!
    Aug 27 2021

    In today’s episode, we will talk about why the Chinese carry a pregnant woman over burning coal, why do Spanish jump over a long row of babies, and why Danish people cover their friends with cinnamon.

    yearly festival locally called El Colacho in the Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia, men dressed as yellow devils run and jump over babies.

    If you are single in Denmark, it is customary for your friends and family to throw you a birthday celebration by covering you in cinnamon when you reach 25.

    In China, there is a very strange tradition. It consists of the husband of a pregnant woman carrying the wife over burning coal.
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