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The supernatural sheep of Slovenia’s door-to-door carnival
- foobarian 5y agoShameless plug for the neighbors with a similar fun custom: the "Zvončari" (the bell-men) [1]. One detail I didn't see on the Slovenian side is "the Devil" which is a single person dressed in all-black, black face paint, and horns to represent the devil, and is supposed to mingle and pretend to cause trouble - push people, hug the onlookers making sure to leave face paint marks, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvon%C4%8Dari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvon%C4%8Dari https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvon%C4%8Dari https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvon%C4%8Dari
- mcc1ane 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukeri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukeri
- verisimi 5y agoThe carnival has been running since 1960. Its also on a UNESCO list. "“In fact, it is a special feeling of power and some kind of supernatural energy,” says one participant in a UNESCO video about the festival. “When you put your cap on you somehow go through a certain transformation from the ordinary man to a true Korant [Korent], a supernatural being.”" Your festival doesn't need to go back into the mists of time to be supernatural, I guess...