For the people who don't know what Kurentovanje is! Kurentovanje is Slovenia's most popular and ethnologically significant carnival. Its main figure, known as Kurent or Korent, has been popularly reinterpreted as an extravagant god of unrestrained pleasure and hedonism in early Slavic customs. In today's festival, groups of kurents or kurenti wear traditional sheepskin garments while holding wooden clubs with hedgehog skins attached called ježevke, the noise of which is believed to "chase away winter". In this way, the presence of kurenti announces the end of winter and beginning of spring.Being a kurent was at first a privilege offered only to unmarried men, but today, married men, children and women are also invited to wear the outfit. I didn't know that either until I read it on Wiki. :)
For the people who don't know what Kurentovanje is! Kurentovanje is Slovenia's most popular and ethnologically significant carnival. Its main figure, known as Kurent or Korent, has been popularly reinterpreted as an extravagant god of unrestrained pleasure and hedonism in early Slavic customs. In today's festival, groups of kurents or kurenti wear traditional sheepskin garments while holding wooden clubs with hedgehog skins attached called ježevke, the noise of which is believed to "chase away winter". In this way, the presence of kurenti announces the end of winter and beginning of spring.Being a kurent was at first a privilege offered only to unmarried men, but today, married men, children and women are also invited to wear the outfit.
I didn't know that either until I read it on Wiki. :)
Looks like we (CURENTS) from the Ptuj area have to come to you to show you how things are served ;)
Greetings to you,
E. D. Kurenti Dioniz
We'd love to have you! Can never have too many Kurents
Winter is scared buhaha...