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Petrarch watched women at Cologne rinsing their hands and arms in the Rhine "so that the threatening calamities of the coming year might be washed away by bathing in the river."

In 1482, German Franciscan friar Paul Walther provided an early documentation of the Albanian traditional practice of lighting fires (zjarre) on Saint John's eve.

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