Baptism

Baptism : nm  In the Christian religion, baptism is a sacrament intended to wash away original sin and to make the person who receives it Christian (originally, immersion in water).
At the exit of the church, after the baptism, the godfather and the godmother threw on the fly dragees and other delicacies: we called his celebrations nails (from the Latin natalia, birthdays), in Franche-Comté, Bartaleas in Picardy, grazing in the Morvan.
The baby's family distributed cakes to parents and neighbors to celebrate the occasion: dough for fearniaux (buns our prunes), Kugelhopfs in Alsace, by the hundred when the family was prosperous.
In Roussillon, on the day of the baptism, the mother ate the hot, a broth made with chicken or tourniquets offered by the godfather and the godmother. This broth had restorative virtues; it must be said that in the past, baptism was generally very close to birth, so much was the fear of seeing the child if it died to become culard, as they said in Burgundy and have your soul condemned to wander in limbo for eternity.
In Brittany, the meal offered by the godfather and the godmother, bore the picturesque name of navel fricassee meal. The child ate a porridge of wheat, while the bells rang the the end of the porridge.