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Beliefs, old traditions, cooking and making drinks, etc.?
About Christmas. The rooms were cleaned, the icons were decorated, people made roses and used paper to decorate the lamps, Christmas tree was brought and people decorated the tree as they could. In …
Categories: Holidays and traditions, Regina Bramane
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About the plants
Plants at home, decorative and other plants around the farmstead in a historical aspect. What can you tell about it?
Already in my childhood, my parents’ home had a name “Lindens”, …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Liga Seikste-Deksne
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Were the houses decorated on Līgo [Jāņi; Midsummer night festival]?
Of course. Front door was decorated in almost every house. Well, but if Janis’ gate was not decorated, that was a great shame. For that, people teased in Līgo songs in the same way as for …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Liga Seikste-Deksne
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What can you tell me about wedding?
Weddings still happen, thank God, people still get married. In our area, as it has been adopted, people register their marriage at the registry office or in church, then the ushers lead them through …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Liga Seikste-Deksne
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What and how did people sing when they got together?
Well, the repertoire was determined by many different aspects. If they had family gatherings, neighbourhood gatherings, then the repertoire consisted largely of the Latvian folk songs. Well, let us …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Liga Seikste-Deksne
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What can you tell me about Shrovetide traditions?
Well, from the point of view of folklore, Shrovetide traditions are connected with masks’ activities, with disguising, with various amusements connected with masquerading. As for my childhood, …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Liga Seikste-Deksne
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You used to live with your grandmother. Could you characterize her a little and tell me about her views about life and her worldview?
Yes, actually, my grandmother was the only person, who had time for me in my childhood, since my parents worked – the father was a tractor driver, my mom worked with livestock, the brother was 1 …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Liga Seikste-Deksne
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How important are relatives and neighbours? Do such events as relatives and neighbours’ parties, get-togethers exist?
Relatives and neighbours, if you live in the country, I guess, the neighbours are even more important than the relatives, because, here we have to mention that Soviet time again, when people acquired …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Liga Seikste-Deksne
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Tell me, please, where you live and if the traditions of cemetery festivals (kapusvētki) are widespread in the area?
At present, the traditions may be said to be gradually disappearing. But I live in Litene civil parish of Gulbene region, it is kind of a borderland of Latgale, but the traditions typical of Vidzeme …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Liga Seikste-Deksne
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And what could you tell me about Christmas and New Year celebrations?
And again, if we are talking about Soviet times, then considering Christmas, I’d say, being a child, I had never felt that the festival would have been prohibited. It simply was not. That was …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Liga Seikste-Deksne
