A ritual among members of this cultural group to protect children from fairies included singing a verse about a dove and evolved into the fijola ceremony. Families of this group sew clothes for a newborn in the kortar fashadura ceremony and for the soon-to-be dead in the kortar mortaja. The Xueta (“SHWAY-tuh”) community and many groups of anusim are both descended from members of this group. Members of this group practice a rite influenced by the work of (*) Isaac Luria, the Edot HaMizrach. This group often can’t mix fish and dairy but can consume kitniyot, or legumes and grains, during Passover. Mizrahis are often conflated with this Ladino-speaking group, which developed after the Alhambra Decree. For 10 points, name this group of Jews with Iberian ancestry, the second largest after the Ashkenazim. ■END■
ANSWER: Sephardim [or Sepharadim; or Sephardic Jews; or Sephardi Jews; accept Sephardic Judaism or Sephardi Judaism; prompt on Spanish Jews or Portuguese Jews or Iberian Jews; prompt on conversos or marranos; prompt on Mizrahi with “what group do they share their rite with?”]
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