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  2. Soul cake - Wikipedia

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    Soul cakes. Soul cakes formed a key part of the Souling traditions. In Staffordshire, the cakes were also called Soul-mass or "somas" cakes. In East Yorkshire, "somas loaves" were traditionally distributed. [33] In some counties, the Soul-mass cake was "made on All Souls' Day, November 2nd, and always in a triangular shape". [34]

  3. Pão por Deus - Wikipedia

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    Pão-por-Deus (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpɐ̃w puɾ ˈðewʃ], "Bread for God") is the Portuguese tradition of souling celebrated all over Portugal, named for the soulmass-cakes given to the poor on All Saints' Day, typically by children and youth.

  4. List of foods with religious symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Simnel cake - symbolically associated with Lent and Easter and particularly Mothering Sunday (the fourth Sunday of Lent). [34] Soul cake, soulmass-cake, or somas loaf - small bread-like cakes distributed on or around All Souls Day, sometimes known historically as soulmass or, by contraction, somas. The cakes commemorate the souls of the ...

  5. Coventry Godcake - Wikipedia

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    The triangles created in country lanes where three lanes meet derive their names from the Coventry Godcake. A triangle is created by the passing of farm vehicles, originally horse-drawn carts, as they turn. The so-called "god cakes", which are not particular to any one city or county, take their name from these triangular pastries. [citation ...

  6. Halloween - Wikipedia

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    [67] [69] [70] Soul cakes were also offered for the souls themselves to eat, [68] or the 'soulers' would act as their representatives. [71] As with the Lenten tradition of hot cross buns, soul cakes were often marked with a cross, indicating they were baked as alms. [72] Shakespeare mentions souling in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona ...

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    On All Soul’s Day—the Christian holiday that gradually replaced the older Celtic holiday of Samhain—poor people would visit richer people’s houses and pray for the souls of their departed ...

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