This folk ritual in villages common across Valoria and The Thousand Isles, often to commemorate the Winter Solstice. A variant of it can also be found in Great Mbo.
It is performed as follows. As night falls, usually a night of the crescent moon or the Winter Solstice, a group gathers in a house, one with two separate rooms. To begin the ritual participants light 100 candles in the second room and position a single mirror on the surface of a small table.
When the sky was at its darkest, guests gathered in the first of the two rooms, take turns orating tales of ghoulish encounters and reciting folkloric tales passed on by villagers who claimed to have experienced supernatural encounters. Upon the end of each story, the story-teller would enter the second room and extinguish one candle, look in the mirror and make their way back to the first room. With each passing tale, the room slowly grew darker and darker as the participants reached the one hundredth tale, creating a safe haven for the evocation of spirits.
However, as the game reached the ninety-ninth tale, many villages would stop, fearful of invoking the spirits they had been summoning.
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