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Once at Christmas, the children were invited by their grandparents to file a full bowl of water in the cold to know their fate and their future profession through the image obtained on the surface of the ice.
Naturally, I experienced the event . For its part, in the light of a carbide lamp that carried with you in the house and who drew shadows all over the walls , my grandmother had its row of onions with a pinch of salt in the bottom for what would be the weather
for the next 12 months. It is moisture or not present in the hollow of each and at the end of the night saying that.
I remember the sun or rain under the onions for this year, but the ice was a majestic tree with branches and roots radiating , such as oak one meets most of the tiles windows even in winter .
The magic of winter and the lights of that time, before electricity came in 1960 with my grandparents, were conducive to the imagination and dreams .
It is probably in this atmosphere that the Chinese invented long ago , with the theater of shadows, they dig ice lanterns for lighting and also to dream .
International meetings ice sculpture are inspired by these lanterns were born in China and the organizers of the big cities of the Arctic Circle invite every winter sculptors from around the world to celebrate the return of light.
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