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- "There is a custom among our people at the Vernal Equinox for a villager to dance naked around a fire with a village elder"
- "It is the custom in this town if a man touches a dead body to wear only bright olive green lace clothing for forty days and forty nights—fools and charlatans will bathe in the ocean, to their great peril"
- "The old ways dictate if a man touches a dead body for a priest to have a procession"
- "Strangers often find it curious here on a young woman’s 11th birthday for a villager to spend a night howling at the moon with an old woman"
- "Strangers often find it curious here when becoming a warrior to abstain from speaking for a day—fools and charlatans will get both ears pierced, to their great peril"