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Persons of modest means are satisfied if they can keep burning the sacred fire over Christmas Day; and as to the very poor, their _cacho-fiò_ is no more than a bit of a fruit-tree's branch -- that barely, by cautious guarding, will burn until the midnight of Christmas Eve.

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

The children, waving olive-branches, careered about us; now and then going through the form of helping to carry the _cacho-fiò_, and all the while shouting and singing and dancing -- after the fashion of small dryads who also were partly imps of joy.

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

Marius completed his work by cutting through the trunk again, making a noble _cacho-fiò_ near five feet long -- big enough to burn, according to the Provençal rule, from Christmas Eve until the evening of New Year's

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

In Aix it was the custom, when the Counts of Provence still lived and ruled there, for the magistrates of the city each year at Christmas-tide to carry in solemn procession a huge _cacho-fiò_ to the palace of their sovereign; and there formally to present to him -- or, in his absence, to the Grand Seneschal on his behalf -- this their free-will and good-will offering.

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

They whispered together and cast uneasy glances toward the chimney, into the broad corners of which the various cooking vessels had been moved to make way for the _cacho-fiò_; and the moment that the cup of benediction had passed their lips they precipitated themselves upon the fire-place and replaced the pots and pans for a final heating upon the coals.

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

In the country, the poorest man is sure of his _cacho-fiò_.

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

In the area of the border between the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, the climate is tropical subhumid (the precipitation is 1040-1600 mm/year) and is dominated by plumajillo (Alvaradoa amorphoides), cacho de toro (Bucida macrostachya), brasil (Haematoxylon brasiletto), carnero (Coccoloba floribunda), mulato (Bursera simaruba), copalillo (Bursera bipinnata) and mezquite (Prosopis juliflora).

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_cacho-fiò_ from the refuse oak timber; and an equivalent present frequently is given at Christmas time to the labourers in other trades.

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

The buzz of talk died away into silence as Elizo's father, the oldest man, took by the hand and led out into the court-yard where the log was lying his great-grandson, the little Tounin, the youngest child: it being the rule that the nominal bearers of the _cacho-fiò_ to the hearth shall be the oldest and the youngest of the family -- the one personifying the year that is dying, the other the year new-born.

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

"This is a day of days -- we are going now to bring home the _cacho-fiò_, the yule-log!

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881