Categories: Eriks Zachs

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’, that place where we celebrated, was Valley Ančupāni. People of different ages came together, there were children, adults. We burned fire, in some years, it was popular to burn motor car tyres. But then the fire was huge and there was a lot of black smoke. We listened to music, different records and the tape recorder. I don’t really remember much, what exactly those songs were, but those certainly were popular Latvian songs and folksongs. People were dancing, I was a kid, and therefore I was much more interested in what was on the table. There were biscuits, candies, also homemade biscuits – the so-called žagariņi [biscuits of twisted dough]. Then there certainly was homemade Jāņi cheese, home-made beer, purchased beer, there was also purchased vodka. We celebrated in Ančupāni, at my father’s friend. Neighbours with their children gathered there.

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Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte