📖 Ukrainian Women's Magic Traditions

«My favourite example! Following the tradition, in the early hours of Mokiy the Wet (24th May according to the Gregorian calendar) a woman would take off clothes and, being naked, would run about her garden bed of sunflowers three times (see “Naked Days”). However, any person who would notice her naked knew perfectly well that she was not a witch, but a kind Ukrainian housewife, who sought to have a good harvest!..»