Domaće životinje u tradicijskoj kulturi hercegovačkih Hrvata
DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN TRADITIONAL CULTURE OF CROATS OF WESTERN HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the domestic, tame animals of western Herzegovina and the strong connection between people and animals; it also discusses about everything that animals offered people, how did they facilitate people life and how people held animals. It’s particularly emphasized the importance of animals to the survival of a nation. The shepherds are looked after animals every day. They knew all the needs of their animals, all the demands and wishes of their flock. Often the animal was patrolled as with people: there were ways to communicate, caressed them and gave them names by external and assorted features. Shepherd’s life and the life of the farm animals found echoes in literature; in poems, sayings, proverbs.

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