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Could you tell me how cheese was made in the countryside?
Here in Latgale, two kinds of cheese were made in those times. One was the simple salted curd cheese, which my mother, as well as my father’s godmother, who was by father’s sister, made. …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Eriks Zachs
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What could you tell me about celebrating Līgo [Midsummer night festivities]?
I live in Ančupāni, Rēzekne district. I was born in 1964. In the second half of the seventies, Līgo was usually celebrated at the neighbours’. I live in Hill Ančupāni, the neighbours’, …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Eriks Zachs
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What are the most vivid memories from what has been told to you by your father, grandfather, other senior people?
I remember my father’s stories that are related to the Latvian writer Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš. My father attended Sološnieki school, which was located in our former family house. …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Eriks Zachs
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Maybe you remember something else that older people have told you?
Older people, who are my father, his god-mother or my father’s father’s sister have told me and also my father’s sisters and other relatives from my father’s side have told me …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Eriks Zachs
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Do you observe fasting in your family nowadays and what is fasting related to in such a physical, spiritual meaning?
Since my family is Catholic, we do observe Catholic traditions, including the fast. The traditional dishes of the fast usually include boiled potatoes, maybe with some linseed oil, or maybe with …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
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Celebration of Christmas
Christmas is traditionally connected with going to church. In our family, everybody is Catholic and so we all together go to church. When we return from the church, it is the eve of the religious …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
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The bathhouse traditions
Yes, we have a black bathhouse, i.e. the smoke is not let through the chimney, but it fills the whole bathhouse, therefore the walls are black and it is called a black bathhouse. We have thought that …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
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About the acorn drink and dandelion root drink.
You, Dagnija, use the old time recipes to prepare acorn drink and dandelion root drink, which are called acorn or dandelion coffee, don’t you?
Yes, it’s a fact that I like to …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
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The bread's baking traditions
In your family you bake bread yourselves, don’t you?
Yes, we still preserve this tradition of the olden times and we do bake bread at home. The holder of the tradition is my grandmother, who …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
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The beer traditions
You mentioned that when beer is made then there are many related doings, traditions. Maybe you could tell me what these traditions are and where they are carried out, where you live, where it all is? …
Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte
Categories: Dagnija Bramane
