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winter traditions: Tayany

      The evening before St. Ivan’s Day the lasses put flowers around a cauldron, cover it with a cloth and they decorate it as a bride. They put the cauldron on the head of a lass and the other girls gather around her, holding hands. The taller ones stand in the front and the shorter ones are in the rear. Lined up like that they go around the springs and sing songs. People give them flour, money and etc. In some regions they put their rings in the cauldron and by the darkness of the rings material they can tell which lass will get married first.