Old European culture

Many years ago, one cold winter evening, in a smoke filled kafana (restaurant), in the middle of a long dinner, a friend of mine drunkenly ...

This is a silver denarius from the time of Augustus. On the reverse you can see the sacred shield ( ancile ) that is said to have fallen fro...

Saint Tsar Lazar fresco from Curtea de Arges Monastery, Romania. Pic from the paper: " Medieval name and ethnicity: Serbs and Vlachs ...

Today I will talk about willow in Slavic spring fertility rituals, gardening and Cricket the cat 🙂  Here we go: Saturday before Palm Sunday...

When I was a little kid, this was "the rude gesture" before I learned the other ruder gestures 🙂.  It turns out this gesture has ...

Here is, at first glance, a very strange Serbian superstition about dogs: A place where a dog has scratched the ground is in Serbian called ...

According to ethnographic data from the late 19th, early 20th century, there once was a custom in Carpathian mountains of Serbia and in Di...