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  2. Superstition in Serbia - Wikipedia

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    Serbia was a Pagan country before the 9th century, which is when superstitious belief was formed. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] After the ending of the Cold War and the subsequent end of the communist rule in Serbia, religion flourished again, and with it, superstition.

  3. Toast (honor) - Wikipedia

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    Wayne Swan, Barack Obama and Julia Gillard toast at a dinner at Parliament House in 2011. A toast is a ritual during which a drink is taken as an expression of honor or goodwill. The term may be applied to the person or thing so honored, the drink taken, or the verbal expression accompanying the drink.

  4. Symbel - Wikipedia

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    Symbel and sumbl are Germanic terms for "feast, banquet".. Accounts of the symbel are preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf (lines 489–675 and 1491–1500), Dream of the Rood (line 141) and Judith (line 15), Old Saxon Heliand (line 3339), and the Old Norse Lokasenna (stanza 8) as well as other Eddic and Saga texts, such as in the Heimskringla account of the funeral ale held by King Sweyn, or ...

  5. Paganism - Wikipedia

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    Ludwig Feuerbach defined the paganism of classical antiquity, which he termed Heidentum ('heathenry') as "the unity of religion and politics, of spirit and nature, of god and man", [49] qualified by the observation that man in the pagan view is always defined by ethnicity, i.e., As a result, every pagan tradition is also a national tradition.

  6. Baltic Finnic paganism - Wikipedia

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    The organic tradition was sidelined due to Christianisation starting from ca. 12th century and finally broken by the early 20th century, when folk Magic and oral traditions went extinct. Baltic Finnic paganism provided the inspiration for a contemporary pagan movement Suomenusko ( Finnish : Belief of Finland ), which is an attempt to ...

  7. Holiday History: Why Do We Put Up and Decorate Trees?

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    According to Britannica, German settlers brought with them the tradition of putting up Christmas trees to America, but most Puritans rejected this custom because of its foreign pagan roots. And ...

  8. What is Nowruz? Persian New Year traditions and food explained

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  9. Folk Orthodoxy - Wikipedia

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    Another follower of the concept of dual faith, Igor Froyanov noted the more pagan nature of society, especially the peasantry in Russia up to the 14th and 15th centuries, an analysis that relies primarily on the B. A. Rybakov's hypotheses, as well as the nature of warfare, the tradition of drunken feasts before the prince, and other indirect ...