Carnival traditions

Carnival traditions Carnival traditions in our country used to be totally different. Masks could not be bought, but everyone is dressed, what he had. The men were dressed in women, and women in men. They used animal fur, horns, bells and the like.

Grandmothers are prepared fritters and donuts, and the men went about the house and the host sang praise his estate. Host them in turn rewarded with meat, fruits, vegetables ... In the end it is all put on the table and party.

Masked people The purpose of masking mostly was expel evil and calling fruitful year.

Preparations have started already after the Three Kings. All people would get together in the same house where they were deciding.

Mostly they are masked at Grandma, Grandpa and brides. One would bride always had a broom in her hand, her grandmother would carry the ashes, and his grandfather was the head of the procession.

Carnival Carnival existed even at the time when my grandparents were children. The masks were made of various materials: cardboard, plaster, fabric, feathers ...

Children are like today went from house to house, a mother and grandmother are baked carnival cookies. The women were dressed in the Countess, Empress, Queen. They wore masks and had long dresses. Men were ringers. Dressed in sheepskin with a bell around his waist. At his feet are sandals footwear and heavy shoes, while their faces were covered with terrible figures of animals with horns.

In places were organized carnival parade where masks danced, sang, ate and drank.

Carnival are burned KRNJU. Incineration Krnje was and is an important event when burning people want to solve a bad year.

Carnival parade The seaside tradition masks is really rich. It lasts for several weeks, but necessarily end on Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday before the holiday season.

The men were masked in fur costumes with hanging bells. They looked dangerous and scary.

It is also a tradition that children in masks patrol the neighbourhood.

Dancing and singing carnival procession chased the winter and all evil forces.

Sibenik carnival My grandfather and grandmother are we still talking about how the Sibenik masks were much better than today. The full year were made masks. They lived for the day.

They gathered in a courtyard where the cooked pasta and beans. There was singing and dancing. It would be the everything, prisoners, nuns and lots of funny masks. The most beautiful are the masks when the Sibenik guys masked in Ali Baba and 40 outlaws and to the horses in the parade went through the city. It was that nobody recognized. Burned the Krnjo who was to blame for all the troubles that have taken place throughout the year.

In the evening they went to the closed dancing in the restaurant Krka, where they could enter only carnival. People danced, sang and ate food. At midnight it was taking off the mask because he already Ash Wednesday, and there already go to another part of the customs when messenger Jews for Lent 40 days preparing for Easter.