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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]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
[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 ...
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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