By Andrei Harnagea In this article I will tell about a custom from Huși, Vaslui county. My parents come from the countryside, which made me grow up more with my grandparents, in the village where they come from. At the beginning of spring it was a tradition to go to my grandparents, to spend the …
An important part of the Dobrogean multi-ethnic picture is made up of Aromanians (named in some texts dating from the Middle Ages as Vlachs): a community originally born south of the Danube, today being dispersed in several areas of the Balkans. In the Byzantine period, they were categorized as shepherds and transhumance practitioners. Currently, around …
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Throughout Poland, the days of November 1 and 2 are dedicated to the memory of the dead. Families visit cemeteries and the graves of their loved ones in large numbers, and then meet at home for lunch together. Soldiers’ graves and forgotten graves are also visited. The currently celebrated Catholic holiday (All Saints’ Day and …
A family without children is considered incomplete – “a house without children is empty”. There are no categorically expressed preferences of all families for her gender, but everywhere they are happy with a boy. For the young mother, it is a special pride to say that she has an “asker – soldier” – the explanation …
