Kupala Night
Traditional Slavic holiday
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Key Takeaways
- Kupala Night is one of the major folk holidays in some of the Slavic countries that coincides with the Christian feast of the Nativity of St.
- In folk tradition, it was revered as the day of the summer solstice and was originally celebrated on the shortest night of the year, which is on 21-22 or 23-24 of June in Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and modern Ukraine.
- The name of the holiday is ultimately derived from the Proto-Slavic word * kǫpati , meaning "to bathe".
Kupala Night is one of the major folk holidays in some of the Slavic countries that coincides with the Christian feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist and the East Slavic feast of Saint John's Eve. In folk tradition, it was revered as the day of the summer solstice and was originally celebrated on the shortest night of the year, which is on 21-22 or 23-24 of June in Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and modern Ukraine. Following the Julian calendar, it is celebrated on the night between 6 and 7 July in Belarus, Russia, and parts of Ukraine. The name of the holiday is ultimately derived from the Proto-Slavic word *kǫpati, meaning "to bathe".
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