When
winter ends and spring comes, there is always a festival held for one week
before Lent. That week is called, Maslyanista or Pancake week. The festival
usually celebrates this week by serving all kind of pancakes (the thin slices
that look similar to crepes) and they always have s special ceremony in which a
doll known as Maslyanista is built and is burnt down in the bonfire. Whatever
of its pieces remains or flies out of the fire, the citizens would then always
throw it back to the fire. Later, after the fire ends, they bury the remains
under the snow, in some sense; they make the remains act as a fertilizer so the
plants and harvest can grow healthy in the spring. The weeks are as they
follow.
Monday – “meeting”,
Tuesday – “fun”,
Wednesday – “sweet tooth”,--serving
of the pancakes.
Thursday – “feast”---burning of the dolls
in the fire.
Friday – “visiting mother-in-law”
Saturday – “visiting sister-in-law”
Sunday – “farewell” “Forgiveness
day”—when you go to a certain person whom you wish they can forgive you. Each
person confesses their sins, hoping to be relieved from it. And once they’ve
made up, they bow and say, “May God forgive you.”
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