Народни календарни празници във Варна от края на XIX до второто десетилетие на XX в.
Folk Calendar Feasts in Varna from the End of the 19th to the 2nd Decade of the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: This article is principally based on terrain material, collected by the author in the last few years. Accessible archive sources have also been used, as well as the results of studies of similar problems by other authors. In recent times a rapid process of change in the traditional calendar feasts and customs set in among the population of the city of Varna. The reason lies, above all, in the establishment of new socio-economic conditions. The rapid accumulation in the town of considerable numbers of new settlers, coming from different regions of the Bulgarian ethnos had an indisputable influence on this process. Elements, connected with farming and stockbreeding, which have now become alien to the city population, underwent the most considerable changes in the various feasts and customs. Those elements, connected with wishes for health and success have shown the greatest vitality in preserving their traditional structures. Changes in the traditional feasts are made by way of the introduction of new elements taken from the general European calendar feasts which were predominant at that time. However, all this took place on a Bulgarian ethnic basis which, although in new manifestations, forms the characteristics of the calendar feasts.

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