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Noche de Novia (Ladino Henna Night)
The Ladino-Sephardic henna night ceremony with its distinctive cantigas de boda and Western-Mediterranean rites.
The "Night of the Bride" is the festive pre-wedding henna celebration of Ladino-speaking Sephardic communities of the Mediterranean. The bride's hands are adorned with henna amid singing of traditional wedding songs (cantigas de boda), blessing her with beauty, fertility, and good fortune. It is one of the warmest surviving customs of the Western Sephardic world.
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