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Showing posts with label European folklore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label European folklore. Show all posts
Monday, 17 March 2025

Baba - Last sheaf of wheat

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Among Slavs, the last sheaf of wheat was commonly called Baba. This word means grandmother, mother, midwife, birth giver...In some places th...
Sunday, 8 December 2024

Not us

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High status families in late Neolithic and Bronze Age Germany kept slaves from other tribes which were genetically unrelated to them ...  ...
Monday, 21 August 2023

Holy water

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@another_barbara : I've read that our ancestors believed that on the evening of January 18th and January 19th until noon water is sacred...
Sunday, 7 August 2022

Julenek

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"On Christmas morning in Norway every gable, gateway, or barn-door, is decorated with a sheaf of grain, called 'Julenek', fixed...
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Sunday, 26 June 2022

Yule log in English tradition

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Have you cut your Yule log yet? "The ancient fire-festival of the winter solstice...has survived...in the custom of the Yule log...[onc...
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Monday, 25 April 2022

Jack and the magic beans

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In this article I will propose that some of our myths about sky gods are in fact very very old scientific theories which tried to explain th...
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