| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Meanwhile before dawn every housewife has dumped out the last bit of fire, smoldering coal, or ash and swept clean her fire-place, her ovens, even her American stove, that the fire for the new year may be absolutely fresh. p. 69 Once every four or eight years there is a ceremonial cleansing of the ovens performed by a masked figure.
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