Vera Kličkova

Traditions during Easter holidays in the remote village of Grešnica. The film was a research project of the newly opened Ethnological Museum to preserve the disappearing customs at least on film for future generations.

A testimony to the performance of ritual dances. Although they were performed only during the so-called “unbaptized days”, the 12 days between Christmas and Epiphany in the Orthodox Christianity, these dances are associated by some researchers with the Roman rosaries, the cult of the dead. Ritual clothing and the use of wooden swords to disperse the demons are important props in the dances that are believed to protect the folks from temptations and demons until they are baptized.

The film is dedicated to St. George's Day, one of the greatest religious holidays whose celebration has its genesis in spring, the awakening of nature and the renewal of life. On the slopes of Skopska Crna Gora lies the village of Bulachani, where St. George's Day customs are cherished to this day.

The numerous ways of fishing in Katlanovo Lake and the customs surrounding fishing that no longer exist due to the drying up of the lake.

Another very isolated region, Mariovo, appears as a setting of the customs that must be performed before, during and after a wedding for the couple to fully unite.