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Tradition "Kalushari"
RUSALSKI GAMES
Love, implemented in RUSALSKA Sunday in northwestern Bulgaria.
Participants in the ritual were young males (always an odd number), called rusalii, kalushari. Before are vatafin who knows curative herbs and magic jam. Title vatafin be transmitted by inheritance, just as the male line. He chose the other participants, except that they have a desire to play, must have proved their alertness, integrity, and mental stability. Dressed in new clothes, decorated with simple, rusaliite have strictly defined ritual prop *- rusalsko flag (a white linen cloth) worn vatafina and rusalska club (from ash, maple or tree) - for each company, all cloudy and decorated with metal rattletraps. Rusaliite walk throughout Sunday and play around town, in houses, fields and across fields. It is believed that the games will drive the diseases of the houses and will bring much fruit in fields, vineyards and gardens. They play some patients rusalskata disease (delirium). Them (patients) believe that mountain back in place or have worked in the days of Rusalskata Sunday. Under the special sounds of music Rusaliiski executed in the pipe, in the mighty pace, rusaliite (trapped in a circle by age) played some patient who was placed on the ground. Vatafinat stands outside the circle with the flag, a bowl with vinegar and garlic skaltsan. During the game, rusaliite parish up sick and vatafinat raztriva and zapoyava with vinegar. Each patient jumped three times. Then, rusaliite vatafina play around until you have left nenapita pot with water. He kalusharite sprinkled with water zapoyva (?) Them with vinegar, nadvesva over each flag and whisper wedge. The oldest schupva pot with his staff, so that water can splash and sick players. In Sunday Rusalskata week, the company plays last dance around the flag at home driving it back together with staff of rusaliite. Players sit in a common table and divide the gifts received. |
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