STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2501, sig. 109-12/148 Page 34 · 34 of 51
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2501, sig. 109-12/148
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3 7/ at Whitsun's Kitchen,Cake of honey and cheese for Christmas,The weddings take place with music, after the wedding ceremony is danced.Baptisms are celebrated by a meal at which the godparents and next friends participate. On feast days, such as New Year's Eve, luck is desired, water, salt and plants become three-kings, light-mess lights are made, fast-night is danced, Easter bread and meat are consecrated.May trees are put in Wal Purgis, in May the whole month takes place through Maiandachten, John's fire is not stirred.Christmas are danced Sunday and Monday.In Advent, the Rorate fairs take place, Christmas is celebrated as at home. There is nothing special about working and harvesting practices/cutter and harvest festival/.In winter, the grain will spin and sew the women. As everywhere, legal practices are reported by municipal meetings and are publicly beaten on the wall in the inn.The body potion or Mohoretsch is drunk at purchase and exchange.As materls, there are mostly wooden figures far away from his chapels.People's songs, sayings and stories are quite the old ones as well as at home.Top names are given after the ancestors or houses.In the villages there is still the old Egerländer dialect.The hall names are German and exactly as at Home.At Wild there are hares, fox's deer and black deer, the forests lead their names according to the stock: Lindenwald,Erlen-Eichen-Buchen-,Fichtenwald. A trip to Machliniec. GraSC Near the beautiful and clean town of Stryj is a large number of German colonies, among them five Egerland villages, which I visited.How peculiar it seemed to me when I entered a Jewish retreat outside Stryi and sounded to me under the threshold the strong, original sounds of my native dialect, when I then in the individual figures