The rituals are all bullshit, course. Yet, "sifting flour" was a thing years back... not the one bought in the store but the one stored in large sacks, and gro

The rituals are all bullshit, course. Yet, "sifting flour" was a thing years back... not the one bought in the store but the one stored in large sacks, and ground in the local mill. The amount of lumps sifted out was non-trivial.