RIGA: Dressed in pagan folk costumes, Latvians gather on a square in the center of Riga for a ceremony that some historians see as the ancient precursor to the Christmas tree tradition.
But these colorful revelers celebrating the winter solstice have not come to decorate a tree, but to burn one.
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