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Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Bulgarian folklore" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 ...
In her retirement, she wrote down all the songs and stories she knew with the help of her son Ivan Dzhurenov. She transcribed over 180 folklore songs and 200 stories, anecdotes, legends, and fables. She also contributed pieces on simple medicine. [1] More than three publishing houses issue her works, as well as the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
In Bulgarian folklore, they are associated with places related to water - wells, rivers, lakes. [3] Thus, there are landmarks in Bulgaria that have the word "samodiva" or "samovila" in them. An example of that are the Samodivski Lakes in the Pirin Mountain. Specifically, they live under large old trees, in abandoned sheds or in dark caves that ...
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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.
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Chavdar (Bulgarian: Чавдар) was a 16th-century semi-legendary Bulgarian hajduk voivode, a leader of a band of outlaws and a protector of the people against Ottoman injustice. Hajduks would usually take to the woods and wage guerrilla warfare on the ruling Turks. Chavdar was born in south Macedonia and headed a band of 300 people.
In traditional Bulgarian folklore, the feast of Trifon Zarezan is primarily associated with viticulture. It is a custom associated with the first step of the annual cycle of vine cultivation process - the grape vine spring pruning. Most Christian churches, including the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, have adopted the New Julian calendar since 1968.