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Swedish "Valborgsmässoafton"
The evening at April 30'th each year people gather around big fires in old tradition to
celebrate the end of winter and the joyful arrival of spring, with longer days and pleasant
weather.
Torsås in Småland in southern Sweden 30/4 1997
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In older days this holiday had an other purpose. After the long winter Man and cattle had
survived of what was stored in authumn, the cattle had to be additional fed with small bushes
and branches. The remains of this coarse nutrition, that the cattle refused was gathered in huge
piles and put to fire and people went out of ther houses and made a lot of noise, firing guns
and eventually throwing an out door party, all in the purpose of chasing the wolves away,
because this was time of the year when the cattle was put out into the meadows.
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