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Traditions spring in Slovakia. Morena (other names: Moran, Death) The Old Slavonic goddess of winter and death, well-known in today's folklore - tradition.

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Page 1: Traditions spring in Slovakia. Morena (other names: Moran, Death) The Old Slavonic goddess of winter and death, well-known in today's folklore - tradition.

Traditions spring

in Slovakia

Page 2: Traditions spring in Slovakia. Morena (other names: Moran, Death) The Old Slavonic goddess of winter and death, well-known in today's folklore - tradition.

Morena (other names: Moran, Death)The Old Slavonic goddess of winter and death, well-known in today's folklore - tradition. Is the personification of winter, spring up by the government. The traditional ritual today is to give Morena and the immolation or drowning. Most often thrown off a bridge or from the rocks.

Page 3: Traditions spring in Slovakia. Morena (other names: Moran, Death) The Old Slavonic goddess of winter and death, well-known in today's folklore - tradition.

The children painted their own Morena.

Page 4: Traditions spring in Slovakia. Morena (other names: Moran, Death) The Old Slavonic goddess of winter and death, well-known in today's folklore - tradition.
Page 5: Traditions spring in Slovakia. Morena (other names: Moran, Death) The Old Slavonic goddess of winter and death, well-known in today's folklore - tradition.

Children chase away Morena.

Page 6: Traditions spring in Slovakia. Morena (other names: Moran, Death) The Old Slavonic goddess of winter and death, well-known in today's folklore - tradition.

Vesna Vesna is in Slavic mythology the goddess of spring, life and youth, wards off the cold and brings warmth, joy and foliage on fields and in forests. She was young and beautiful. It was the birch tree that thrives in the spring as the first, from birds to it binds cuckoo.

Page 7: Traditions spring in Slovakia. Morena (other names: Moran, Death) The Old Slavonic goddess of winter and death, well-known in today's folklore - tradition.

The children painted their own Vesna.

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Morena and Vesna.