Folklore Balkan folk rhythms

This is from the area I come from.
Here you can see the ritual part of this pre-Christian tradition inherited from ancestral times. The purification of the evil and the curses of the fairies.
The dance takes place in the week before the Rusalii.

 
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Does Călușarii have similarities in other Balkan countries?

Rusalii (Русалии) ; German , Scaloian (Герман ; Скалоян), Peperuda Пеперуда (Dodola), Calushari (Калушари) exist in Bulgaria too...and in the neighboring Orthodox Slavic countries of course.
 
"Paparudele" is an ancient ritual that has the role of bringing rain.
Paparuda is an old divinity from the Romanian mythology, probably pre-Roman, of the fertile rain, which is invoked by groups of women and girls during the drought part of the year.


 
Ο ε μπουκουρα Μορε - Thanassis Moraitis - O e bukura More

Petkat e te mirat tona (Ndallandishe e lere e lere) - Thanassis Moraitis


Kenge Arbereshe - Yll i bukur
 
Afroditi Manou - Kopile moj Kopile
 

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/hajredin-pasha-hajredin-pasha-or-mountains-dibra.html

Hajredin Pasha is headed toward Radika
where are those mountains of Dibra?


Hajro when will you come to the Gjorica field?


On the field of Gjorica at the fortress
Hajredin Pasha has found trouble


oh the pasha is in trouble
the mountains of Dibra have sworn an oath


yes they have sworn an oath, they have sworn all together
Not to leave(give up) Dibra to the Turk


Hajrdein Pasha you stupid man
Dibra can't be forced on its knees


Hajredin Pasha, where are your soldiers?
slaughtered by the mountains of Dibra


Oh they are all left behind in the mountains of Dibra
and they were not a few, but 12 thousand


Albanian Revolt of 1843–1844
Part of the Albanian revolts against the Ottoman Empire
Date1843–1844
LocationOttoman Albania
Modern-day northern Albania, Kosovo, south-eastern Serbia, and western Macedonia
ResultSuppression of the revolt by the Ottomans
Belligerents

Ottoman Empire
23px-Flag_of_Albanian_Provisional_Government_%28Jun-Nov_1912%29.svg.png

Albanian Rebels
Commanders and leaders
Hayredin Pasha
Omar Pasha
Bib Doda Pasha, Kapedan of Mirdita[1]
23px-Flag_of_Albanian_Provisional_Government_%28Jun-Nov_1912%29.svg.png
Dervish Cara
23px-Flag_of_Albanian_Provisional_Government_%28Jun-Nov_1912%29.svg.png
Sheh Mustafa Zerqani
23px-Flag_of_Albanian_Provisional_Government_%28Jun-Nov_1912%29.svg.png
Cen Leka
Strength
30,000
Unknown number of irregulars
c. 10,000[2]
Casualties and losses
15,000 killed9,000 killed


More even than the song claims xD
 

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/hajredin-pasha-hajredin-pasha-or-mountains-dibra.html

Hajredin Pasha is headed toward Radika
where are those mountains of Dibra?


Hajro when will you come to the Gjorica field?


On the field of Gjorica at the fortress
Hajredin Pasha has found trouble


oh the pasha is in trouble
the mountains of Dibra have sworn an oath


yes they have sworn an oath, they have sworn all together
Not to leave(give up) Dibra to the Turk


Hajrdein Pasha you stupid man
Dibra can't be forced on its knees


Hajredin Pasha, where are your soldiers?
slaughtered by the mountains of Dibra


Oh they are all left behind in the mountains of Dibra
and they were not a few, but 12 thousand


Albanian Revolt of 1843–1844
Part of the Albanian revolts against the Ottoman Empire
Date1843–1844
LocationOttoman Albania
Modern-day northern Albania, Kosovo, south-eastern Serbia, and western Macedonia
ResultSuppression of the revolt by the Ottomans
Belligerents

Ottoman Empire
23px-Flag_of_Albanian_Provisional_Government_%28Jun-Nov_1912%29.svg.png

Albanian Rebels
Commanders and leaders
Hayredin Pasha
Omar Pasha
Bib Doda Pasha, Kapedan of Mirdita[1]
23px-Flag_of_Albanian_Provisional_Government_%28Jun-Nov_1912%29.svg.png
Dervish Cara
23px-Flag_of_Albanian_Provisional_Government_%28Jun-Nov_1912%29.svg.png
Sheh Mustafa Zerqani
23px-Flag_of_Albanian_Provisional_Government_%28Jun-Nov_1912%29.svg.png
Cen Leka
Strength
30,000
Unknown number of irregulars
c. 10,000[2]
Casualties and losses
15,000 killed9,000 killed


More even than the song claims xD

Te kishe gjetur nje interpretim tjeter. Nuk eshte kenge per studio kjo o shoku. Kjo i do burrat ulur kembekryq rreth, si kjo ketu poshte:
Dasem Dibrane Maqellara-Oda dibrane

Sillu Shqipe nga kalaja
Kjo eshte Dibra maja maja
Dibra pushken ka zanat
Per Shqiperi dhe per bajrak
 
Kisha siklet të vija Sinanin me Ermalin se ma shpifin. Thash po vija atë bukuroshen. Po ke të drejtë.
 
Live Aurela is better than on CD(spotify/damn I am old), amazing performer! That crowd is good too. Too bad for the camera/production...

Kape qik këtë vlla.
Ca produksion ka pas Xhaxhi xD

 
Live Aurela is better than on CD(spotify/damn I am old), amazing performer! That crowd is good too. Too bad for the camera/production...

Kape qik këtë vlla.
Ca produksion ka pas Xhaxhi xD

Shiko Besim Zekthin, gjigand.
Besim ZEKTHI - Kreshniket e Lirise

Ansambli i Kengeve e Valleve - Valle Labe - Mal e Ngritem Lumturine
 
Rusalii (Русалии) ; German , Scaloian (Герман ; Скалоян), Peperuda Пеперуда (Dodola), Calushari (Калушари) exist in Bulgaria too...and in the neighboring Orthodox Slavic countries of course.
I found this Bulgarian variant that is slightly different from the Romanian "Călușul", but the ritual is meaningful without the need for explanations.

 

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