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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 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. | |||
| A similar Romanian rain ritual is the ]. | |||
| The name is probably derived from ], which in it`s turn is a Slavic (south slavic) goddess, or as Sorin Paliga suggests, is a divinity from the local ] substratum<ref>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>ibidem</ref>. | |||
| The name of ''Dodola'' is possibly cognate with the Lithuanian word for thunder: ''dundulis''<ref>ibidem</ref>. | |||
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