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| '''''Paparuda''''' is a ] ], probably of ] origin, performed in the spring and in times of severe drought. | |||
| A girl, wearing a skirt made of fresh green knitted vines and small branches, sings and dances through the streets of the village, stopping at every house, where the hosts pour water on her. She is accompanied by the people of the village who dance and shout on the music. The custom has attributed a specific type of dance and a specific melody. | |||
| A similar Romanian rain ritual is the ]. | |||
| The name is probably derived from ], which in its turn is a Slavic (south slavic) goddess, or as Sorin Paliga suggests, is a divinity from the local ] substratum<ref name="Sorin">Sorin Paliga: "Influenţe romane și preromane în limbile slave de sud" </ref>. | |||
| Like the ] (''dudula'', ''dudulica'', ''dodolă'' in Romanian, ''dudulë'' in Albanian, ''tuntule'' in Greek, ''dudulya'' and ''didilya'' in South Slavic languages), which is another name for the same custom, and other ritual Paliga argues is of Thracian origin, the Paparuda is found only at ] (''păpărudă''), ] (''pirpirună'') and ] (''peperuda'', ''perperuna'')<ref name="Sorin"/>. | |||
| The name of ''Dodola'' is possibly cognate with the Lithuanian word for thunder: ''dundulis''<ref name="Sorin"/>. | |||
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