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Kupalle
Kupalle celebrate on June 21. It is a traditional and the most loved holiday in Belarus.
Kupalle is a pagan summer celebration of fertility in the name of a female God — Kupala. Lately it was renamed into a Christian celebration of male saint-Ivan Kupala.
Kupalle usually involves youth going into a forests and the meadows, wearing flowers and grass garlands, dancing in karagods (circles around fires), jumping through fires.
A popular kind of Kupalle was fortune-telling — putting wreaths on water. People believed that on Kupalle night the fern has a very special flower-«paparats-kvetka»- glowing in the dark. If you find the flower, you’ll be happy. But no one has found «paparats-kvetka» yet.
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