The Slavs of the war zone . d ever heard of the coming of the Boyitch,*on this night was celebrated The Feast of the Dead. AndHe is not jealous, the Blessed Child, explains an old woman, He is not angry that we still give the candles to the dead whowail for light on His birthnight. It was on this evening, whichis now the fete night of the Infant Christ—the Little God—thatthe heathen forefathers of the Serbian Slavs believed Earthbecame blended with Baj, the abode of the dead. On thisevening they fancied the spirits of the departed cried on thethresholds of the living for light to be brought to
The Slavs of the war zone . d ever heard of the coming of the Boyitch,*on this night was celebrated The Feast of the Dead. AndHe is not jealous, the Blessed Child, explains an old woman, He is not angry that we still give the candles to the dead whowail for light on His birthnight. It was on this evening, whichis now the fete night of the Infant Christ—the Little God—thatthe heathen forefathers of the Serbian Slavs believed Earthbecame blended with Baj, the abode of the dead. On thisevening they fancied the spirits of the departed cried on thethresholds of the living for light to be brought to them, which,when given in the form of burning tapers set on the doorstep,made them content to lie do^vn and sleep in peace for anothertwelve months. * The Little God, now the name given to the Child Christ, whoseworship is, more or less, mixed with the former adoration of the ancientpagan God Dabog, or Daybog —the Sun God—who, in old times,was represented by a wooden figure, with a silver head and A Pack Horse in Herzegovina.
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