"At Dijon, Burgundy, it is the custom on the first Sunday in Lent to make large fires in the streets whence it is called Firebrand Sunday. This practice originated in the processions formerly made on that day by the peasants with lighted torches of straw, to drive away, as they called it, the bad air from the earth."
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John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, in Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the ..., Volume 1 (1841), p. .55
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