Old European culture

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

Medieval "stećak" standing stone, Bosnia, with the depiction of the ritual circular solar dance "kolo", meaning wheel, s...

Good morning! The sun is shining, time to get up and have some fun! Ancient (officially medieval???) stećak  standing stone, Bosnia. Depicti...

In Bulgaria, a special loaf of bread was made immediately after a person died, during the washing of the body. It was a simple round loaf, s...

As late as the mid 20th century, there was a custom in Poland to bake small loaves of bread for the dead on the All Souls day. Because the A...

In Belarus, when storytellers want to emphasise that something happened long time ago, they would say "in the old days, when people kep...

Girls dancing "Кривий танець"  (Wavy, Curvy dance), a ritual dance which was in the past performed at the beginning and the end of...

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