Legend has it that goblins will enter the house through the fireplace, fires are left burning all day and night during Christmas.

传说圣诞节期间会有小妖精从房子的壁炉钻进来，因此希腊人在圣诞期间白天和夜晚都会燃着炉火。

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The bowl of flames has been burning, so the legend goes, since the 1920s, when a couple of hunters sat down for a smoke and one threw away his match, suddenly igniting the leaking gas right next to him.

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