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Ladouvane
Bulgarian custom
This custom is done on 1 st January or on the Palm Sunday or on 24 th June and
it depends of the region of the country.
This custom is about guessing about marriage. The girls who take part in the
custom put water in a white copper. The water should be taken from three wells in
silence and to put their rings tied with a flower and red thread in the copper. They
cover the copper with an apron or red napkin and put the copper under the rose tree
and the stars to be able to fondle it.
The girls choose a girl who has to have alive parents, has to be rich and to be
the first child in the family. This girl is called “Bride” or “Godmother”. She will do
predictions about future marriage of the maidens.
She is dressed with a white dress and her head is covered with a red veil and
flower wreath. All together go to her home. They take the copper with “silent” water.
The girls stay around “the Bride” and sing predictions and she takes rings from the
copper.
People believe that these predictions will come true.
Interesting predictions:
He sits on the bed and counts gold money
/Rich man/
He sits on the chair and writes a book.
/Teacher/
Blue sky, bright star./Handsome man/
Yellow hollyhock sees over the palisade
/Neighbour/
Wet trousers are hanged on the wall.
/Fisher/
Yellow quince overripe really wants to fall.
/Too old bachelor/
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