Kravaj u svadbenim običajima južnih Slavena
Kravaj in the South Slav Wedding Customs

Summary/Abstract: The author deals with the use and terminology of the ritual pastry »kravaj« in South Slav weddings. The role of and the procedure with kravaj prove to be of the same meaning and function; despite regional variation, in the East Pannonian plane, in east Serbia, as well as in parts of Bulgaria and Macedonia. Besides an ethnographic account, the author considers the ethnology of the term kravaj. Her conclusion is that the root of the word is in the verb kraviti, the argument which she supports by ethnographic evidence.

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