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medieval song titled 'Soul flew out of the body' sang in eastern Poland since the 14th century

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The celebrations of midsummer are among the most interesting and oldest annual festivities in Poland. Nowadays it known mostly as Noc Świętojańska (St. John’s Night) due to the influence of C…

Midsummer celebrations in Poland

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Kamaedzitsa in Belarus, photography by Alfred Mikus.

Kamaedzitsa is a spring ritual still celebrated among some East Slavs on 24th March in Julian calendar (6th April in Gregorian calendar). In Belarus it's a national holiday dedicated to awakening of the spring, considered a remnant of pagan totemism and bear worship that dates back even as far back as the Stone Age.

During the celebrations a community member dressed in a bear costume imitates waking up of the animal and his comeback to life after long winter hibernation. He walks on two legs, dances with the members of the community, and eats both meat and vegetarian food. According to local legends in Belarus, he was an ancestor of the man. In many interpretations the bear in the rite was an incarnation of the Slavic god Veles, and the holiday might've been dedicated to that god in the pre-Christian times.

Remnants of that custom are still visible in almost all Slavic countries. In Russia, some elements of that holiday were incorporated into the Maslenitsa festival. In countries like Poland or Slovakia and many others, a bear figure appears frequently during the koliada season.

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Group of carolers from village of Trześniów, south-eastern Poland, c. 1932. All costumes have a symbolic meaning connected to old rituals, focusing on fertility and the natural cycle of life and death. To read more, I encourage you to browse my tag kolędowanie (caroling).

Source: muzeumetnograficzne.rzeszow.pl