raviers

Updated: May 13, 2025

Ch. For an explanation of the custom of throwing a pebble into the fire, see below, p. 240. Jean Baptiste," Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie, viii. In Upper Brittany these bonfires are called rieux or raviers. A. de Nore, Coutumes, Mythes et Traditions des Provinces de France, pp. 219, 228, 231; E. Cortet, op. cit. pp. 215 sq.

Sir James George Frazer - Balder the Beautiful, Volume I.: A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The: Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul