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malkia
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posted March 01, 2002 07:41 AM |
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Ade Chestita Baba Marta!
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Romana
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posted March 01, 2002 11:19 AM |
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congratz...uhmm..
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Wesley
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posted March 01, 2002 01:36 PM |
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No offence makia
But you complain about my threads..
Give me one reason why you should post this crap...
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posted March 01, 2002 07:54 PM |
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Chestita Baba Marta!
The red and white figure is called "martenitza". This is an old Bulgarian custom. Always on March 1st the Bulgarians put martenitzas on their clothes or tie them on their wrists. They are meant to bring good luck and health. When people see a stork or a swallow, they take them off and tie them to a blossoming tree or under a stone.
The martenitzas are presented to relatives or friends.
This is a good custom, I think, although I usually don't give martenitzas to other people... Some people's hands can't be seen from so many martenitzas in red and white...
P. G. Wodehouse has a book whose title is (according to the Bulgarian translation) "Be a Bulgarian, Jeeves!". You don't need to become Bulgarians but if you like this custom, you may celebrate it the following years... I only wonder how you will find martenitzas in your countries... You may have to make them yourselves!
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posted March 01, 2002 07:59 PM |
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hmmm...
it all makes sense now... actually we Greeks have a similar custom... but it is mostly for children... I stop wearing the red and whites around my wrist, 8 years ago...
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Cat
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posted March 01, 2002 08:01 PM |
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Dydd St. Dafyd Hapus!
in Wales, today is Dydd St. Dafyd.. or St David's day... We wear daffodils 2day.. or, in the case of sum mad people, leeks.. but we don't speak of them...
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malkia
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posted March 01, 2002 08:21 PM |
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it all makes sense now... actually we Greeks have a similar custom... but it is mostly for children... I stop wearing the red and whites around my wrist, 8 years ago...
Didn't know that greeks also used to have this custom. Well our folklore music is much like yours (except new one folk music - I mean - not Sirtaki and so).
Anyway... here is something... Martenitsa can be like artifact - giving you luck for the year.
Wesley well explained it, but I chose to describe it using a site I found:
this is from http://www.omda.bg/engl/ethnography/festivals1.html
THE MARTENITSA
is a unique Bulgarian custom. It originates from the ancient Thracians. The earliest martenitsas were made of white and red woollen threads to which a silver or gold coin was occasionally tied. Other rituals observed on March 1 include women's dressing all over in red, in some regions, and in North-eastern Bulgaria the lady of the house used to toss a red cloth over a fruit tree or spread red wool onto a field to secure fertility. In stock-breeding areas, a white-and-red thread was commonly tied to the livestock. The tradition is still alive and widely respected: every year on March 1 Bulgarians present each other with martenitsas.
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So it seems, we and greeks as ancestors of trhacians must have this custom.
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hamsi128
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posted March 02, 2002 10:54 AM |
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everyday i learn something new
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posted March 02, 2002 01:49 PM |
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in Wales, today is Dydd St. Dafyd.. or St David's day... We wear daffodils 2day.. or, in the case of sum mad people, leeks.. but we don't speak of them...
Hehe the welsh language really is kewl. I dunno how it could be so different from the english that it is, i guess welsh maybe is a mixture of another language too? damn we read about this in school, maybe it could have been clever to listen what the teachers had to say once in a while too
Ive seen a name of a welsh town/village that was about 30 letters long and had 2 or 3 vocals in it. I would like to hear someone that isnt familiar with welsh try to pronounce that
Wooohooo our football club has a party tonight, time to get really drunk 
/Stefan
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Cat
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posted March 02, 2002 02:54 PM |
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Edited By: Cat on 2 Mar 2002
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It's pronounced:
(roughly- this isn't perfect): Clan-friar, puth-windith, go-geric, wurne-drobwick, clan-tis-sil-e-o, gogo goch. (lit: 'St. mary's church on a little hill overlooking a stream' or something similar..)
Non-Welshies make a series of desperated hacking noises and then yell 'gogogoch!' at the end.. LMAO! Bless 'em for trying though... it's the hardest language to speak that I know of, except perhaps Irish Gaelic.
Like I said- that's not perfect, as it's hard to write phonetics! Welsh is a hybrid of Brittany french, Viking and whatever they spoke in ancient Gaul- LOL!
Dydd St. Dafyd Hapus (lit. Happy st. David's day) is pronunced 'Deeth St. Davv-id Hap-us'. dd is pronounced as a cross between 'dd' and 'th', f is a 'v' (as in 'Have') and all vowels are hard..
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posted March 04, 2002 09:35 AM |
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How facinating that I can learn something like this yes  DDDD:
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