Halloween in der Steiermark und anderswo

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LIT Verlag Münster, 2005 - Festivals - 308 pages
 

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Contents

Section 1
63
Section 2
64
Section 3
69
Section 4
74
Section 5
80
Section 6
81
Section 7
87
Section 8
90
Section 10
175
Section 11
176
Section 12
179
Section 13
216
Section 14
220
Section 15
221
Section 16
243
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Section 9
165

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Page 11 - Christians would walk from village to village begging for "soul cakes," made out of square pieces of bread with currants. The more soul cakes the beggars would receive, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf of the dead relatives of the donors. At the time, it was believed that the dead remained in limbo for a time after death, and that prayer, even by strangers, could expedite a soul's passage to heaven.

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