Category: Local customs and traditions
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Gagolica? Glago what? What it’s this?
The last 4 of January, Nikola, ex-Kuterevo’s Volunteer, was teaching us Glagolica. That is the most old Slavic alphabet. Was used for to translate the Bible and data from IX A.C. It was used before the Cyril and means “to speak”. This alphabet is composed for 41 characters, but some of them we don’t use…
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Making Rakija
Beginning of November… it’s time to make Rakija! Since September, we’ve been collecting a lot of fruits (plums and drenjula), cleaning them and putting them in a barrel so they can ferment… Then we’ve had to wait few weeks before being able to distill them. We were quite impatient to see that! And it’s now…