It is about tradition on new years day young people and kids going from home to home to grating people for new year and prosperity in the house.


This interview is with my auntie few days ago by Ivelina Ivanova traslated by Ann Wood

Juliana Petrova, Secretary of the Iskra 1893 Community Center 9 Palamartsa village: The Survakar tradition is still preserved in our region.
The Survakar tradition is still preserved in the Kapanski villages in the Popov region. This was stated by Shoumen Radio Yuliyana Petrova, secretary of the Iskra 1893 Community Center 9, Palamartsa. The children decorate the rod sticks in the spirit of tradition - with woolen threads, strings of popcorn and dried, dried hot peppers, put a penny, and on the morning of January 1, family members, loved ones and neighbors survack. "Even when the survaknits are dubbed, as they used to be called in the past, the survakat traps are first of all family members - for the sake of health and begging for future fertility. And then in groups of 2-3, at most 4-5 children, with handbags over their shoulder, they go round the houses of neighbors and relatives - everywhere, with a stick on their backs, always starting from the oldest, and until they call high. bless, "said Juliana Petrova. She stated that the survakars were welcomed in every home and donated - usually with nuts, apples, pears, dried fruits and small sums of money. Juliana Petrova also said that the trapans in Popovsko, Survaki, had been celebrated for two days in the past. The custom is associated with walking on the first day of the godfather, and on the second day with the parents of the bride - with grandparents. On the godfather, a tortoise, boiled chicken, black porridge is prepared and worn, which in Popovsko is prepared with majun, banitsa, fields also with majun, wine and brandy. they carry with grandparents. After the surfing is over, according to the old tradition, the chicken room is left on the hen house - to lay the chickens again and lay many eggs, "said Juliana Petrova. She explained that with traditional shutters, traditional sofas are typical of every holiday. "And since Survaki is after Christmas, and after the traps are slaughtered the pigs on the second day of Christmas, Survaki is cooked a poach from the pig's head, a rooster is cooked and a cheese pie is made. It is also traditional, it puts steam and survaka - this is called the small twigs of tufts with buds. Trapans call the steam for luck, fortune, fortune, for wealth, and the tree branches put in it for the pets, as a rule they watched the buds on them as big as the animals, ?said Juliana Petrova. She added that the spruce branches were also called the house with people and the plow.

Ivelina IVANOVA




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