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Mandi Safar

















          •The

          festival of Mandi Safar is                               •Purpose:


          known to have been                                       To clean oneself of spiritual

          celebrated by the Malays                                 impurity and to protect

          in                                                       oneself from misfortune.

          Peninsular Malaysia

          annually on the last


          Wednesday of the Muslim

          month of

          Safar.

          •Ceremonial

          bathing in the river or sea.
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