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Folk customs of South Bohemia: Have they a chance to survive in new millennium?
MARHOUNOVÁ, Jitka
The work deals with folk customs of South Bohemia, if they have a chance to survive in new millenium. At the beginning I define the origin of folk customs, then I give an overview of religious and secular feasts and defference between custom, saying and superstition. The main part includes the description of specific feast days. Usually there is an explanation of the feast day origin, possible modification, which happenned during ages and what they look like today. Then the thesis brings customs description, which refer to this feast day. The feast days are ordered according to flow of the year from beginning of the year until the end. The aim is to find out, which reasons lead to the fact, folk customs slowly die out and options, ho to prevent it.

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