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Kukeri Festival
This is a celebration of the New Year according to the Old Julius Calendar. It is intended to scare away evil spirits or ghosts just before nature comes back to life. In order to dispel the evil and diseases and to ensure the advent of spring, provide health, fertility and happiness in the village, men dress in sheepskin and put on scary masks. Disguised in this way, men represent monsters with disproportional human and animal features. The kukeri dancers also wear copper bells on their belts which ring loudly as they move and scare the evil spirits.
This is a celebration of the New Year according to the Old Julius Calendar. It is intended to scare away evil spirits or ghosts just before nature comes back to life. In order to dispel the evil and diseases and to ensure the advent of spring, provide health, fertility and happiness in the village, men dress in sheepskin and put on scary masks. Disguised in this way, men represent monsters with disproportional human and animal features. The kukeri dancers also wear copper bells on their belts which ring loudly as they move and scare the evil spirits.
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