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Traditions and customs
• Slovakia – many traditions• Followed by people from villages• Types: pagan and religious• Most of them: forgotten• Connected with: weather lore, sayings
Traditions
• People – connection with nature– Cycle of the year
• Causes: – They could not explain natural effects– Fear of unknown, bad luck, poor harvest
• Myths and legends• Related to location
Morena
• Goddess of death and winter• Straw figurine dressed in women´s clothes• Set on fire, thrown in river• Symbol: welcoming beggining of spring• Folk music and dresses
„Na Žofiu“ – 15th May
• Time for planting flax– High mountains, trees– Cat in linen cloth– Row in family– Long noodles– Strong liquor
„Na Luciu“ – 13th December
• whole day – loud nioses• Cause: frighten bad ghosts and whiches– White dresses and faces
• Brewing love potion