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===Americas=== ====United States==== {{Main|Luminaria}} Placing candles or [[tea light]]s in a succession of small paper bags (known as [[farolito|luminarias]] or farolitos) is a common [[Christmas]] tradition in [[New Mexico]]. The tradition originated from the [[parol]] paper lanterns of the [[Philippines]] brought over to the Americas during the colonial period.<ref name="Castro">{{cite book |last1=Castro |first1=Rafaela |title=Chicano Folklore: A Guide to the Folktales, Traditions, Rituals and Religious Practices of Mexican Americans |date=2001 |publisher=OUP USA |isbn=9780195146394 |page=94 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WdzY7YjhRroC&pg=PA94}}</ref><ref name="Greene">{{cite news |last1=Greene |first1=Bizia |title=Holiday charm of farolitos started in the Philippines |url=https://www.santafenewmexican.com/life/family/holiday-charm-of-farolitos-started-in-the-philippines/article_de9781be-6a14-52e3-bc21-cebe48dad6c0.html |access-date=1 December 2020 |work=Santa Fe New Mexican |date=27 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Our View: Why luminarias should be your new (old) Christmas tradition |url=https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/editorial/2017/12/21/luminaria-new-old-christmas-tradition/962185001/ |access-date=1 December 2020 |date=21 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="Ribera">{{cite book|title=Christmas in old Santa Fe|first=Pedro|last=Ribera Ortega|edition=2|publisher=Sunstone Press|year=1973|isbn=0-913270253|pages=[https://archive.org/details/christmasinoldsa0000ribe/page/14 14]β23|url=https://archive.org/details/christmasinoldsa0000ribe|url-access=registration}}</ref> <gallery> File:Luminarias.jpg|Luminarias during Christmas in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]] </gallery>
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