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Kukeri dancing in Kalipetrovo. Kukeri is a divinity personifying fecundity. Sometimes in Bulgaria and Serbia it is a plural divinity. In Bulgaria, a ritual spectacle of spring (a sort of carnival) takes place after a scenario of folk theatre, in which Kuker's role is interpreted by a man attired in a sheep- or goat-pelt, wearing a horned mask and girded with a large wooden phallus.
Kukeri (Bulgarian: кукери; singular: kuker, кукер) are elaborately costumed Bulgarian men who perform traditional rituals intended to scare away evil spirits. Closely related traditions are found throughout the Balkans and Greece (including Romania and the Pontus ).
Conducted in the last three days of January. Kukeri or Surva Festival (Mummer's games) in the town of Pernik, is the most spectacular "Kukeri" event in Bulgaria. At the end of January thousands of "kukeri" participants from different regions of Bulgaria, as well as from all around the world gather in Pernik for the three-day event.
The căluș is a male group dance, although there are records of traditions from Oltenia region that included 1–2 young girls, now obsolete. A "bride" would be chosen by the group from each village they passed through, based on her dancing skills. The "bride" would be oath-bound to join in the ritual dance, for three years in a row. [citation ...
Rusalska sedmica - Dance procession like Exorcism, one week after Pentecost; Sirni zagovezni - On Sunday, seven weeks before Easter. Jumping over the campfire and juggling with fire; Surva (Beginning of the new year), Kukeri (At the beginning of the new year and on Sirni zagovezni) and Koledari (on Christmas),
Kurentovanje 2025 was the 65th edition of Ptuj carnival organized by Ptuj Public Institute with the Urban Municipality of Ptuj cooperation, held between 22 February and 4 March in Ptuj, Slovenia.
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In "Distribution and etymology" it states that the kukeri custom "pre-dates Roman rule by several centuries": but above, in the Intro section it says that "modern scholarship generally rejects this view, and the Kukeri are now considered to be part of a general Balkan mumming tradition that emerged sometime in the early modern period".