Confetti Confetti Confetti are small pieces or streamers of paper, mylar, or metallic material which are usually thrown at celebrations, especially parades and weddings. The origins are from the Latin "confectum", with "confetti" the plural of Italian "confetto", small sweet. Modern paper confetti trace back to symbolic rituals of tossing grains and sweets during special occasions, traditional for numerous cultures throughout history as an ancient custom dating back to pagan times, but adapted from sweets and grains to paper through the centuries. Confetti are made in a variety of colors, and commercially available confetti come in many different shapes. A distinction
Origin of the Székelys alternative theory about the origin of the Székelys. Based on the Latin "Siculus" form of their ethnonym, he said that Sicilian soldiers who allegedly fought in the army in Attila the Hun were the Székelys' ancestors. Jesuit priest Ferenc Fasching stated that the Székelys were descended from a Jasz group whom Béla IV of Hungary had supposedly settled in Transylvania. Nicolae Iorga proposed that the Székelys were originally Romanians, but he abandoned this theory. Origin of the Székelys Scholarly theories about the origin of the Székelys (a subgroup of the Hungarian people) can be divided into four main groups. Medieval