Paparuda

Paparuda is a Romanian and Bulgarian rain ceremony, probably of pagan origin, which is practiced in the spring and in times of drought.

A girl wearing a skirt made ​​from fresh green vines and branches, dancing, singing through the streets of the village remains in front of each house are where its residents douse them with water. It is accompanied by the villagers, who sing to the music and screaming. To this custom include a specific type of dance and melody.

A similar Romanian rain ritual is the CALOIAN.

The name is probably derived from Perperuna, a ( south ) Slavic deity, or is it, after Sorin Paliga to a local Thracian culture substrate.

The Dodola (Romanian dudula, dudulica, Dodola, Dudule Albanian, Greek tuntule, Croatian dudulya and didilya ) in which it is a different name for a similar custom, Decev compares with Thracian Anthroponymen and toponyms (such Doidalsos, Doidalses, Dydalsos, Dudi, Doudoupes, etc.) and says that Paliga had Thracian origin, whereas the Paparuda was found only with the Romanians ( păpărudă ), Aromanians ( pirpirună ) and Southern Slavs ( peperuda, perperuna ).

The name Dodola may possibly be associated with the Lithuanian word for thunder ( dundulis ).