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A Lesson in Culture
“In both Ukraine and Russia, both spouses-to-be would wear crowns during the wedding ceremony, apparently continuing an ancient tradition from Byzantium,” says professor Alexander Mihailovic, who teaches at Bennington College and specializes in Slavic Literature. “Ukraine has preserved the original Greek and Byzantine tradition of wedding head wreaths.”
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“When coming home with the baptized baby, the godmother is obliged to change the baptismal rite: "We have taken away a pagan, we have brought you a Christian.” And the mother shall say, He that loveth him best, let him bring him to his mother. And the father, being ready, took him up from the table, and carried him to the mother by the sheet.“
-Pavol Dobšinský: Prostonárodnie obyčaje, zvyky a povery
