FOLK TRADITIONS

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News photo: Belarusian folk rite Zasevki-2024 held in Vitebsk District

A few days ago, the weather in the north of Belarus made it possible to start sowing. On April 2nd, the official sowing campaign in the Vitebsk District kicked off in the fields of the Lipovtsy Agricultural Unitary Enterprise with the folk rite of Zasevki [sowing time], sb.by reports. Archpriest Vladimir Pashkevich, Dean of the Vitebsk District, blessed the beginning of sowing, “Sow as for yourself, as in your own field. Go out into the field with kind thoughts and prayer, and then the harvest ...

03.04.2024
Belarus , folk traditions , rite , Vitebsk District , sowing campaign

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Easter is approaching

Amazing Easter traditions have preserved in Belarusian villages, and a long-standing custom of making a butter sheep is still practiced in the Vitebsk Region

22.04.2022
easter , folk traditions , food

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Maslenitsa celebrated in Belarus with burning effigies and pancakes

Maslenitsa traditions are being revived in the Mogilev Region. Since ancient times, Belarusians bake pancakes that are viewed as a symbol of the holiday, visit their relatives and friends, play funny games, sing and dance during the Maslenitsa week. Celebrations close with burning of an effigy and meeting of spring. Photos: www.pniva.by

04.03.2022
maslenitsa , holiday , folk traditions

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Secret code of rushniks

... retirement and is now reviving folk traditions Tatiana Kovaleva arrives at the ... retirement. Now she is reviving folk traditions: her works are exhibited at ...

05.11.2021
folk traditions , rushnik

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