Rosica is a ritual believed in of religious origin but has come to be practiced as a popular and pagan celebration. It has no fixed date and is considered a calendric ritual, celebrated 25 days after Easter, typically on Wednesday and Thursday. This ritual is exclusively practiced by girls and women. On Wednesday, girls, or even women, go around the village singing and asking for flour, oil, butter, eggs, etc., to cook on this day. These ingredients are collected in different bags, pots, or other similar stuff. Girls get together in one or two houses, where their mothers or even they themselves will cook various ritual dishes, mostly dough-based ones. They make two-layer lakrori (a savory pie), pies, pancakes, revania (sort of pound cake), pandispanja (cake spongy layer), pengjir (a kind of cake made with plenty of egg yolks), and so on. These dishes will be shared among the women participating in the rite, while some portions will also be saved for those who, for various family reasons, could not attend this celebration. These dishes are shared the next day, on Thursday, 26 days after Easter, during the ritual lunch which is held at the restaurant. The restaurant was named after the characteristic rite of the village, \u201cRosica\u201d. Here, all women of the village hold a festive lunch with their ritual dishes cooked but order other special dishes from the restaurant as well. Yet, the business element introduced in such celebration, i.e., the restaurant, has transformed the character of the ritual lunch from a Lenten one into an ordinary meat-consuming lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rosica is a ritual believed in of religious origin but has come to be practiced as a popular and pagan celebration. It has no fixed date and is considered a calendric ritual, celebrated 25 days after Easter, typically on Wednesday and Thursday. This ritual is exclusively practiced by girls and women. On Wednesday, girls, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[842],"tags":[874],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-korce-municipality","tag-social-practices-rituals-and-festive-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n