“Folklore and folk art keep a nation alive. They alone are the essence of a nation, they alone help prevent annihilation, they alone differentiate one nation from another.”
Folklore
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Lithuanian Days where folk artists and craftsmen promote Lithuanian national cultural heritage, cuisine, folklore, education, medical and tourism opportunities in Lithuania are being held in Dnipro in Eastern Ukraine.
In the thirteenth century Lithuanians had to face an onslaught of Livonian and German crusaders, great military organizations whose raison d'etre was war on non-Christian religions. For pagan Lithuanians, who had just formed military forces of their own, their faith played an equally important part ...
More than 300 loaves of bread will be distributed to residents and guests of Vilnius city in the Cathedral Square on 4 July. The Folklore Day of the Song Celebration 2014, which will start with the symbolic bread-bringing ritual, will fill the capital with a variety of old traditions, and flood the ...
