Another view of the Spas festival in Moshny. Villagers are lined up in back of their baskets of fruit waiting for the church procession to approach and to sprinkle them and the fruit with holy water.
The Spas festival in the village of Moshny, Cherkasy region, August 19, 1998. Spas is a harvest festival, and there are three of them: the blessing of poppy seeds and honey, the blessing of the fruit, and the blessing of nuts. In the photograph we see the blessing of the fruit. Please notice the church procession with banners and crosses
Village of Topyl'na, Shpolians'kyi region. Varvara Petrivna Kryts'ka, 86 years old, out in her potato field with Halyna Kornienko and her sister-in-law.
Agafiia Iumenivna Kucher and her daughter, village of Subotiv, Chyhyryn region, August 20, 1998. Agafiia Iumeniva is an especially good narrator and a person with a great knowledge of village traditions and village lore.