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Belarusian village of Pahost.
A woman feeds bread to a cow as part of the pagan tradition of Yurya. According to the custom, she must give the cow bread and special herbs before going to the fields for the first time that year, to ensure the animal remains healthy throughout the season.
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Princeton Slavic Collections
Selections from Princeton’s collections of rare documents of the artistic, intellectual, social and political history of Russia, Eastern Europe and the territories of the Former Soviet Union.
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- Creator of work
- Liankevich, Andrei
- Geographic Origin
- Belarus
- Geographic Subject
- Belarus
- Subject
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- Agrarian and rural issues
- Agriculture
- Religion
- Religion
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