Chaharshanbe Suri
Chaharshanbe Suri (Persian: چهارشنبه سوری) is a fire jumping festival, celebrated in Iran. Loosely translated as Wednesday Light, from the word sur which means light in Persian, or more plausibly, consider sur to be a variant of sorkh (red) and take it to refer either to the fire itself or to the ruddiness (sorkhi), meaning good health or ripeness, supposedly …