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Chaharshanbe Suri
The Tuesday night before the last Wednesday of the Persian year, when people jump over bonfires to leave sickness and ill luck behind.
About Chaharshanbe Suri
On the eve of the last Wednesday of the Persian year, bonfires are lit in streets and courtyards and people leap over them, saying a formula that asks the fire to take their yellowness (paleness, sickness) and give back its redness (warmth, health). Other customs sit alongside it: banging spoons on bowls from door to door for sweets, smashing an old clay jar from a rooftop to break the year's misfortunes, and fal-gush, standing at a crossroads to overhear a stranger's words as an omen for the coming year. Many scholars link the night to older Iranian ideas about fire and the return of the dead before spring. It has been discouraged by some religious authorities in Iran, yet it remains a mass street festival there and in Afghan, Tajik and Kurdish communities.
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Also part of it, and being written: Divination (The overheard-word omen is a small form of it.).
Written by the EveryJaadu desk with AI assistance. Background: "Chaharshanbe Suri" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family, and are described as belief and practice. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.