O narodnom težačkom kalendaru u Bosni, mjerenju i prognoziranju vremena u narodnoj tradiciji
About the National peasant calendar in Bosnia, measuring and forecasting the weather in the folk tradition

Summary/Abstract: Based on folk tales and the available literature, oral narratives and own experiences and observations in his immediate and wider homeland (village Piskavica, wider Gracanica area and north-eastern Bosnia), the author through a popular method (using some archaic expressions, such as šenica (wheat), čele (bees) etc.), provides an overview of the so-called peasant calendar in this area, stating precisely what is being done in the field, garden, orchard, apiary and livestock in certain times of the year, in which hevta (week) per Prozuk (Christmas) or Aliđun (Ilinden). The author also points out at the several characteristic ways of measuring and forecasting the weather in these geographic areas that have been retained in the folk tradition and legend for a long time.

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