Traditional Europe
The New Year’s Bear Dance Ritual gather inhabitants of northern Moldova, Romania, from very young children to the elderly, for the final day of an approximately week-long festival of winter traditions taking place between Christmas and the end of the year.…
The annual spring celebration “Bele Poklade” took place yesterday in Lozovik and other towns across Serbia.
On Poklade Sunday, the young and unmarried (usually male) villagers create costumes from pumpkins, wool, feathers, flax and fleece to embody the dark spirits they wish to banish from the village and from themselves. They bang drums, yell, smack fences with sticks and leap over fires to expel evil forces, closing the winter season and opening the way for a fruitful, fertile spring.
On Poklade Sunday, the young and unmarried (usually male) villagers create costumes from pumpkins, wool, feathers, flax and fleece to embody the dark spirits they wish to banish from the village and from themselves. They bang drums, yell, smack fences with sticks and leap over fires to expel evil forces, closing the winter season and opening the way for a fruitful, fertile spring.
Mussenden Temple, Northern Ireland
Mussenden Temple is a small circular building located on cliffs near Castlerock in County Londonderry, high above the Atlantic Ocean on the north-western coast of Northern Ireland.
It was Lord Bristol – popularly known as “the Earl-Bishop” – who had the “temple” built in 1785. Constructed as a library and modelled from the Temple of Vesta in the Forum Romanum in Rome
Mussenden Temple is a small circular building located on cliffs near Castlerock in County Londonderry, high above the Atlantic Ocean on the north-western coast of Northern Ireland.
It was Lord Bristol – popularly known as “the Earl-Bishop” – who had the “temple” built in 1785. Constructed as a library and modelled from the Temple of Vesta in the Forum Romanum in Rome