Postcard from Ukraine.
Kupala is one of the major folk holidays of the Eastern Slavs, that coincides with the Christian feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist and the East Slavic feast of Saint John’s Eve. In folk tradition, it was revered as the day of the summer solstice and is originally celebrated on the shortest night of the year, which is on 21-22 of June. The name of the holiday is ultimately derived from the East Slavic word kÇ«pati “to bathe”.
A number of activities and rituals are associated with Kupala Night: such as, gathering herbs and flowers and decorating people, animals and houses with them; entering water, bathing or dousing with water and sending garlands on water, as depicted on this postcard.
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