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Dodola

Dodola (also spelled Doda, Dudulya and Didilya), also known under the names for butterfly: Paparuda, Peperuda, Perperuna or Preperuša, is a pagan tradition found in the Balkans. The central character of the ceremony is usually an orphan girl, less often, a boy. Wearing a skirt made of fresh green knitted vines and small branches, the girl born after the death of her father, the last girl child of the mother (if the mother subsequently gives birth to another child, great misfortunes are expected in the village), sings and dances through the streets of the village, stopping at every house, where the hosts sprinkle water on her. The ritual is associated with a particular tune to which a particular dance is performed, not only by the girl, but also by the village… more »

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We have not painted faces
We will not remain patient
When you come we'll all be waiting
Our sons they'll help us save them
Daughters hiding remain nameless
We will not paint their faces

It gets so dark I want to know what they look like
I'm ready to feel sunlight
From all the days spent inside

All our daughters abandoned us, Dodola
Can you take something else instead, Perpurna
All the gold we have offered you means nothing
Burn down the forests and cut the fields for safety
Don't come back here to bother us, Dodola
We'll find another way back to lush green gardens
When you eventually come for them, our daughters
Won't be so easily taken from tight hands holding
All our daughters abandoned us, why can't you take
Our sons instead our gold, did it mean nothing?

It gets so dark I want to know what they look like
I'm ready to feel sunlight
From all the days spent inside
It gets so cold I forgot what warmth felt like
I'm ready to feel sunlight
From all the days spent inside

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