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What could you tell me about the traditions of Līgo celebration [Midsummer night festivities]? What have you heard about Līgo, have you participated in Līgo celebration?
I have experienced Līgo celebration throughout my childhood – actually, the whole life. For me, Jāņi [Midsummer night festivities] is a significant and important holiday because my …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Liga Seikste-Deksne
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You gather medical plants now, don’t you?
Well, you see, when one lives in the country, to go and buy peppermint at the chemist’s would be ridiculous. Of course, I gather herbs for tea and not only for everyday cooking needs and to …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Liga Seikste-Deksne
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What is that lore of yours, but its roots actually are to be found in the previous generations of your family?
In this case, we should find out what the lore is. To some extent, the lore is a scale of human’s self-esteem that has established in the course of life. Thus, it develops in contact with the …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Liga Seikste-Deksne
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About the memory books
Very often, we set our past retroactively, but there are such witnesses of the past as memory books. Have you ever had such books at school and what you could say about it?
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Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Liga Seikste-Deksne
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The trees, bushes and flowers
Could you tell me what flowers and ornamental trees and bushes were grown on a Latgalian farmstead?
I can tell you only about the plants that grew in my home farmstead. Flowers and flower gardens …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Eriks Zachs
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Products in Latgale
In former times and, maybe, also nowadays, in Latgale people most often… buy a lot in shops, but they also grow a lot themselves. They cook themselves, too; therefore they have such self-grown …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Eriks Zachs
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What dishes were made on a farmstead?
On the farmstead where I used to live, dishes were usually made from those foodstuffs that were grown – from the garden, from the live-stock, those that we grew ourselves, as well as bought …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Eriks Zachs
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About the tapping birch sap
In Latgale, and maybe also in Latvia, there is such an unusual thing for the world as tapping birch sap and maple sap and their preservation – so that they could be used for consumption for, …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Eriks Zachs
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Have you happened to go, or see, experience going mumming? What do you know about mummers, going mumming?
Yes, about going mumming, that, of course, could be read about in various Latvian writers’ works – Jaunsudrabiņš’ or Birznieks-Upītis’, I won’t remember exactly, …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Eriks Zachs
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The strong alcohol
Do you know and could you tell me how was homemade strong alcohol made in Latgale in former times?
I can tell you how my parents made it at home. Homemade strong alcohol was cheaper that the one …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Eriks Zachs
