🤔 Did you know that Slavic peoples used to have their own Halloween, which was called Veles' Night?

  • Велесова ночь
    [ velisava noch ]
🇬🇧 Veles' night

🔻Veles was a major god of earth in Slavic paganism. 

🔻As well as the European Halloween, Велесова Ночь was celebrated from October 31 to November 1.

🔻Unlike the Celtic tradition to celebrate noisily, the Slavs preferred to stay at home and turn on as much light as possible.

🔻It was believed that on Veles' night the spirits of ancestors returned to their descendants to teach them lessons and bless the entire family.

🔻At the night the border between our world (Reality) and the world of spirits (Navyu) thinned, an uninvited guest from the otherworldly universe could enter the house.

🔻The Slavs spent Veles' night with their loved ones. Rowan branches were placed on the threshold and window sills, a bonfire was lit in the yard, and many candles were lit in the yard.

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🔢 Суздаль
     [ soozdal' ]

🔻The town's history dates back probably to 999 or 1024, and in 1125 Yury Dolgoruky made Suzdal the capital of the Rostov-Suzdal principality.

🔻Set in a fertile wheat-growing area, Suzdal remained a trade centre even after Mongol-led invasions (Suzdal was burned and plundered in 1237).

🔻Eventually, it united with Nizhny Novgorod until both were annexed by Moscow in 1392.

🔻Today, the town operates as an important tourist center, featuring many fine examples of old Russian architecture—most of them churches and monasteries.

🔻What to see in Suzdal:

• The Kremlin (the 10th century, the predecessor of the Moscow Kremlin)
•  Saviour Monastery of St Euthymius
• Wooden Church of St. Nicholas
• St Antipius and Saint Lazarus churches
• Museum of Wooden Architecture
• Neskuchny Museum Izba Traktir
• Cucumber Day Festival with folk music performances

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