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Updated: May 6, 2025
On the appearance of daybreak, at six A.M., the morning revellers put off their coarse garments well begrimed by this time and in their turn become guizards. They assume every imaginable form of costume those of soldiers, sailors, Highlanders, Spanish chevaliers, etc.
Thus disguised, they either go in pairs, as man and wife, or in larger groups, and proceed to call on their friends, to wish them the compliments of the season. Formerly, these adolescent guizards used to seat themselves in crates, and accompanied by fiddlers, were dragged through the town." The Persians used to celebrate a festival of fire called Sada or Saza at the winter solstice.
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