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Rituals in connection with bread

Are there still existing rituals in connection with bread?
Nearly a quarter part of the questioned people do know rituals:

  • Salt and bread as a gift when moving into a new home or as wedding gift (fortunate, bread is always available)"
  • Thanksgiving day. Bread on the altar
  • Breaking bread as a sign of community
  • Sign of cross before baking - religious reasons
  • Praying before the meal (making the sign of cross)
  • Bread as a gift (also sweet bread, twisted bread)
  • Different dealing of bread in European countries (cutting or breaking)
  • Giving bread to the poor people

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Brot u. Salz Erntefest
K. Prochorov, Russisches Brot und 
Salz, 1999, DBM		 Feier des Erntefestes in Ulm 1817, DBM

Quotations:

"Bread for the bride and bridegroom, so that they never will miss bread"
"Breaking bread as a sign of community"
"In Germany the bread is spread , in other countries not (supposedly Mediteranean countries)
"For house moving we gave a nice baked bread corona with a deepening for salt"
"An Easter twisted bread baked by our own"
"As teacher I use to eat bread with the pupils at the beginning of the pause with the purpose to teach them careful handling of bread".
"When moving to a new house , bread and salt shall bring fortune"
"Bread must be cut always evenly" (good housewife)
"Before baking, a cross is marked in the dough".