"martinmas" - 1 õppematerjal

Estonian holidays, festivals, cultural events

reverence for dead and for respecting and maintaining graves predates the Christian era. http://www.estemb.org/estonia/holidays St. Martin's Day ( Mardipäev) (10 nov) Celebrates the end of the agrarian year and the beginning of the winter period. It also often marks the end of the period of all souls. To celebrate this, people dressed up in costumes and went from family to family, singing and wishing good luck for the crops. Children visit houses on St. Martin's Eve, singing Martinmas songs and offering good luck for crops and households. St. Catherine's Day (Kadripäev) (25 nov) Was a day for women, who dressed in costumes and walked from house to house wishing good luck for the crops. Nowadays, children are successfully keeping up the tradition.As the festival is accociated with a female saint, men dress up in women's clothes, wearing light colors as a symbol of the coming snow.As women traditionally tended the sheep, many of