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NAME GIVING

TO CHOOSE A NAME FOR A YOUNG CHILD, YOU ARE TO CHOOSE
SEVEN NAMES, THEN BRING OUT SEVEN CANDLES. GIVE EACH
CANDLE A NAME AND THEN LIGHT ALL SEVEN. THE CANDLE
THAT BURNS THE LONGEST IS THE NAME THE CHILD IS TO
RECEIVE.

Submitter comment: INFORMANT RECEIVED HIS NAME IN THIS MANNER.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIBRARY ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT

Subject headings: CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Baptism Naming rite

Date learned: 03-23-1971

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