2025 / Culture and everyday lifeCulture and everyday lifeПБПFurther Notes on Our Pagan Spring Ritual
A source from 1700 preserves a detailed description of a pagan spring ritual involving beer, also known from the chronicle of Maciej Stryjkowski. A priest drank beer from a vessel without using his hands and then threw it behind his back. The text explicitly mentions Lithuanians, Ruthenians and other peoples of the region.
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