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Updated: May 7, 2025
Thus "in Little Russia it used to be the custom at Eastertide to celebrate the funeral of a being called Kostrubonko, the deity of the spring. A circle was formed of singers who moved slowly around a girl who lay on the ground as if dead, and as they went they sang: 'Dead, dead is our Kostrubonko! Dead, dead is our dear one!
THESE Russian customs are plainly of the same nature as those which in Austria and Germany are known as "Carrying out Death." Therefore if the interpretation here adopted of the latter is right, the Russian Kostrubonko, Yarilo, and the rest must also have been originally embodiments of the spirit of vegetation, and their death must have been regarded as a necessary preliminary to their revival.
until the girl suddenly sprang up, on which the chorus joyfully exclaimed: 'Come to life, come to life has our Kostrubonko! Come to life, come to life has our dear one!" On the Eve of St. Then a tree is felled, and, after being decked with ribbons, is set up on some chosen spot. Afterwards a bonfire is lit, and the young men and maidens jump over it in couples, carrying the figure with them.
A long rope of sealskin is then stretched out, and each party laying hold of one end of it seeks by tugging with might and main to drag the other party over to its side. If the ptarmigans get the worst of it, then summer has won the game and fine weather may be expected to prevail through the winter. Death and Resurrection of Kostrubonko
I RUSSIA funeral ceremonies like those of "Burying the Carnival" and "Carrying out Death" are celebrated under the names, not of Death or the Carnival, but of certain mythic figures, Kostrubonko, Kostroma, Kupalo, Lada, and Yarilo. These Russian ceremonies are observed both in spring and at midsummer.
The revival as a sequel to the death is enacted in the first of the ceremonies described, the death and resurrection of Kostrubonko.
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