quirky local customs / beliefs / traditions...

[zombie no.one]

the rule of applying jam to your scone before you put the cream on, is a big deal in cornwall





my mother, who is cornish, even has this as a bumper sticker

[Trevor]

It's customary in South Africa to establish where someone you meet is from (if they say they are not local) and then to sincerely welcome them. 😊😊🇿🇦

[claws]

There's a symbolic custom for financial luck. Not so in our town, but done in surrounding towns.

The custom of washing purses dates back to the 15th century. With the end of the carnival on Ash Wednesday, not only was the hustle and bustle of the service staff over, but also the financial blessing. Because after the exuberant celebration, the wallets were usually empty.

[claws]

the rule of applying jam to your scone before you put the cream on, is a big deal in cornwall

Just flip the scones over?



But that's how world wars get started, I guess.

[zombie no.one]

^ fair point! guess it only applies if you eat them 'open'...

It's customary in South Africa to establish where someone you meet is from (if they say they are not local) and then to sincerely welcome them. 😊😊🇿🇦

nice to know, but not really that quirky unless I'm missing some aspect of it... do you do this whilst standing on your heads for example? 

There's a symbolic custom for financial luck. Not so in our town, but done in surrounding towns.

The custom of washing purses dates back to the 15th century. With the end of the carnival on Ash Wednesday, not only was the hustle and bustle of the service staff over, but also the financial blessing. Because after the exuberant celebration, the wallets were usually empty.

haha that's great. never encountered this

[Trevor]

^ fair point! guess it only applies if you eat them 'open'...

It's customary in South Africa to establish where someone you meet is from (if they say they are not local) and then to sincerely welcome them. 😊😊🇿🇦

nice to know, but not really that quirky unless I'm missing some aspect of it... do you do this whilst standing on your heads for example? 

We - or at least I - always toss them a pair of slightly used underpants as a welcome gift and then they leave. Quickly 😳😳😉😉

[zombie no.one]

interesting tactic   

[Trevor]

interesting tactic   

😁😁😁😁🐢

[zombie no.one]

Zaragosa's annual 'running of the wasp'

http://youtu.be/j93eAMHO1iM?si=PEvKv46hz5NjnOTw

(possibly not true)

[RCMerchant]

the rule of applying jam to your scone before you put the cream on, is a big deal in cornwall

[img width=300]https://www.jamfirst.store/cdn/shop/files/D8E1E7F8-06D0-4230-BCAF-703A02E1EB47_1024x1024.jpg?

No idea what a scone is.

[claws]

A few more of our local customs. This one is not really quirky, though.

Rauhnäche (Rough Nights)

A candle in the window: an old custom during the 12 nights between Christmas and Epiphany. The "12 Rough Nights" represent one of the 12 months of the year and invite us to look back. But also to take a glimpse of what may come.

a weird one

Franconian customs: In the forest of the peppered girls

Every year on the fourth day of Christmas, December 28th, young men go from house to house, singing, dancing and "peppering" all the women. This custom only exists in a few Upper Franconian villages.

The so-called "peppering" is an old pagan fertility ritual that has survived to this day. For example, young men in costumes parade through the streets in the highlands of the Upper Franconian Forest. They visit around 150 houses one by one.

The women are then symbolically beaten - "peppered" or "fizzled" as they say in the Franconian Forest - with freshly cut and decorated fir branches.

[zombie no.one]

the rule of applying jam to your scone before you put the cream on, is a big deal in cornwall

[img width=300]https://www.jamfirst.store/cdn/shop/files/D8E1E7F8-06D0-4230-BCAF-703A02E1EB47_1024x1024.jpg?

No idea what a scone is.

a very basic kind of small bun / cake... quite bread-like in texture but firmer, and sweeter

In the forest of the peppered girls

there's the title of my giallo, if I ever make one!

[pacman000]

the rule of applying jam to your scone before you put the cream on, is a big deal in cornwall

[img width=300]https://www.jamfirst.store/cdn/shop/files/D8E1E7F8-06D0-4230-BCAF-703A02E1EB47_1024x1024.jpg?

No idea what a scone is.

Like an American biscuit, but usually sweet.