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Maslenitsa celebration

17.03.2024, Maardu. The tradition of Maslenitsa dates back to pagan times, when Russian folk would bid farewell to winter and welcome spring. In the Christian tradition, Maslenitsa is the last week before the onset of Great Lent. Celebrants commemorate the departure of winter by burning a straw effigy of Lady Maslenitsa." Photo Mihkel Maripuu, Postimees

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Maslenitsa celebration

17.03.2024, Maardu. The tradition of Maslenitsa dates back to pagan times, when Russian folk would bid farewell to winter and welcome spring. In the Christian tradition, Maslenitsa is the last week before the onset of Great Lent. Celebrants commemorate the departure of winter by burning a straw effigy of Lady Maslenitsa." Photo Mihkel Maripuu, Postimees

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Maslenitsa celebration

17.03.2024, Maardu. The tradition of Maslenitsa dates back to pagan times, when Russian folk would bid farewell to winter and welcome spring. In the Christian tradition, Maslenitsa is the last week before the onset of Great Lent. Celebrants commemorate the departure of winter by burning a straw effigy of Lady Maslenitsa." Photo Mihkel Maripuu, Postimees

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Maslenitsa celebration

17.03.2024, Maardu. The tradition of Maslenitsa dates back to pagan times, when Russian folk would bid farewell to winter and welcome spring. In the Christian tradition, Maslenitsa is the last week before the onset of Great Lent. Celebrants commemorate the departure of winter by burning a straw effigy of Lady Maslenitsa." Photo Mihkel Maripuu, Postimees

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Maslenitsa celebration

17.03.2024, Maardu. The tradition of Maslenitsa dates back to pagan times, when Russian folk would bid farewell to winter and welcome spring. In the Christian tradition, Maslenitsa is the last week before the onset of Great Lent. Celebrants commemorate the departure of winter by burning a straw effigy of Lady Maslenitsa." Photo Mihkel Maripuu, Postimees

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Maslenitsa celebration

17.03.2024, Maardu. The tradition of Maslenitsa dates back to pagan times, when Russian folk would bid farewell to winter and welcome spring. In the Christian tradition, Maslenitsa is the last week before the onset of Great Lent. Celebrants commemorate the departure of winter by burning a straw effigy of Lady Maslenitsa." Photo Mihkel Maripuu, Postimees

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Maslenitsa celebration

17.03.2024, Maardu. The tradition of Maslenitsa dates back to pagan times, when Russian folk would bid farewell to winter and welcome spring. In the Christian tradition, Maslenitsa is the last week before the onset of Great Lent. Celebrants commemorate the departure of winter by burning a straw effigy of Lady Maslenitsa." Photo Mihkel Maripuu, Postimees

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Maslenitsa celebration

17.03.2024, Maardu. The tradition of Maslenitsa dates back to pagan times, when Russian folk would bid farewell to winter and welcome spring. In the Christian tradition, Maslenitsa is the last week before the onset of Great Lent. Celebrants commemorate the departure of winter by burning a straw effigy of Lady Maslenitsa." Photo Mihkel Maripuu, Postimees

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Maslenitsa celebration

17.03.2024, Maardu. The tradition of Maslenitsa dates back to pagan times, when Russian folk would bid farewell to winter and welcome spring. In the Christian tradition, Maslenitsa is the last week before the onset of Great Lent. Celebrants commemorate the departure of winter by burning a straw effigy of Lady Maslenitsa." Photo Mihkel Maripuu, Postimees

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Comic character effigy gets New Year sacred rope

YONAGO, Japan - Workers put a sacred Shinto rope of rice straw around the neck of a huge stone figure of the "GeGeGe no Kitaro" comic character as a customary New Year decoration in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Dec. 25, 2014. The western Japan city is the birthplace of comic author Shigeru Mizuki.

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Jumping over burning straw effigy

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - A Russian woman and a male Chinese student jump over a burning straw effigy in an event to bid farewell to winter at a university in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Feb. 24, 2012. The event is part of a Russian religious week called Maslenitsa.

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Jumping over burning straw effigy

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - A Russian woman and a male Chinese student jump over a burning straw effigy in an event to bid farewell to winter at a university in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East on Feb. 24, 2012. The event is part of a Russian religious week called Maslenitsa. (Kyodo)

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Comic character effigy gets New Year sacred rope

YONAGO, Japan - Workers put a sacred Shinto rope of rice straw around the neck of a huge stone figure of the "GeGeGe no Kitaro" comic character as a customary New Year decoration in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Dec. 25, 2014. The western Japan city is the birthplace of comic author Shigeru Mizuki. (Kyodo)