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intangible cultural heritage
class of UNESCO designated cultural heritage
namaste
thumb |upright |Pressing hands together with a smile to greet namaste – a common cultural gesture in India
arranged marriage
marital union organized by parties other than the couple
Tooth fairy
European early childhood legendary figure, who visits children while they sleep, collects lost baby teeth, and recompenses with a small payment
birthday cake
dessert served to celebrate a birthday
bread and salt
welcome greeting ceremony in some Slavic, Nordic, Baltic, Balkan and Middle Eastern cultures in which guests are presented with a loaf of bread and salt
artificial cranial deformation
Form of body alteration
spanking
thumb|Cropped portrait of a mother spanking her child from a 1937 parenting book
Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
UNESCO treaty
lament
thumb|right|Jan Kochanowski with dead daughter in painting inspired by the poet's Laments
Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
UNESCO list
traditional food
foods and dishes that are passed on through generations
pinky swear
gesture to signify the unbreakableness of a promise
Punch and Judy
traditional British puppet show
constitutional convention
uncodified norms followed by the institutions of a state
Mos Teutonicus
removal of flesh prior to burial
journeyman years
time of travel following apprenticeship
Tradition of removing shoes in home
cultural practices
homecoming
thumb|"Queen of the May" East Texas State Normal College in 1921, a predecessor of the modern homecoming queen Homecoming is the tradition of welcoming back alumni or other former members of an organization to celebrate the organization's existence. It is a tradition in many high schools, colleges, and churches in the United States and Canada.
celebratory gunfire
Shooting a firearm to celebrate event.
woodcraft
thumb|upright=1.4|Campfire instructions from ''The American Boys' Handybook of Camp-lore and Woodcraft'' (1920) Woodcraft or woodlore is skill and experience in living and thriving in the woods, either on a short- or long-term basis. It includes skills as hunting, fishing, and camping. Traditionally, woodcraft was associated with subsistence lifestyles and hunting-gathering. In modern developed countries it is more commonly associated with outdoor recreation or survivalism. Woodcraft is one form of bushcraft.
High table
table for the use of fellows and their guests at various colleges and universities
bundling
traditional social custom and courting behavior
Birthright
Birthright is the concept of things being due to a person upon or by fact of their birth, or due to the order of their birth. These may include rights of citizenship based on the place where the person was born or the citizenship of their parents, and inheritance rights to property owned by parents or others.
family tradition
aggregate of attitudes, ideas and ideals, and environment, which a person inherits from their parents and ancestors