Horí / On fire!
Morena 2013, Myjava
Šmertka britká / Ugly face
Morena 2013, Myjava
Morena 2013, Myjava
Morena 2013 na Myjave
Morena / Marzanna tradition, 2013, Myjava
Morena 2013, Myjava
Marina & Morena
Jarný sprievod / Marzanna tradition
Rodinka / A family
Lunica a strom života / Moon and Tree of life symb…
Rishikesh / View over ghat
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Playing / Koncovka
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Zápolenie / Fight
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Buchta, stromy, tiene / Dog, trees, shadows
Na rúbani / Cut woods
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Evening sunlight III.
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Morena zhorená / Burnt Morena


It concerns the "drowning of Marzanna," a large figure of a woman made from various rags and bits of clothing which is thrown into a river on the first day of the spring calendar. Along the way, she is dipped into every puddle and pond ... Very often she is burned along with herbs before being drowned and a twin custom is to decorate a pine tree with flowers and colored baubles to be carried through the village by the girls. There are of course many superstitions associated with the ceremony: you can't touch Marzanna once she's in the water, you can't look back at her, and if you fall on your way home you're in big trouble. One, or a combination of any of these can bring the usual dose of sickness and plague.
—Tom Galvin, "Drowning Your Sorrows in Spring", Warsaw Voice 13.544, March 28, 1999
—Tom Galvin, "Drowning Your Sorrows in Spring", Warsaw Voice 13.544, March 28, 1999
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