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January 1956

Pfui of the Schornsteinfeger

By: Anonymous | Long Island, New York

THERE is in Germany as, I believe, in several other European countries, a tradition that bristles from the brush of a chimney-sweep (Schornsteinfeger), or a pig, when acquired at New Year's, bring luck to the acquiree.

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