When celebrating with my friend whose family has kept many old traditions from North Wales there's a strong element, while sitting around a fire (drinking something warm and alcoholic, preferably, and eating stuff cooked on or in the fire), of talking about members of the family who have died.

Jumping "through" the flames might be a bit much ... we jump OVER the flames (as we did for our wedding) after waiting for the really dangerous ones to have died down. I've had no problems jumping over the flames but I do have a small scar where an ember jumped from the fire down my cleavage when we were eating and drinking ....

Anne