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Kurenti - Traditional Slovene Carnival Figures (15)

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In Haloze, a hilly region in the northeast of Slovenia, kurenti are accompanied by oraci, plowmen, who plow a symbolic furrow in the courtyards of the homes the group visits.

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On the last day of the carnival period, the day before Ash Wednesday, the Carnival mask is burned and buried. After a long day of visiting homesteads, members of The Ethnographic Society Plowers Leskovec gathered at their headquarters in Zgornji Leskovec, brought a Carnival dummy to the courtyard and set it on fire. The Carnival period was over, spring was around the corner.

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Kurenti rest and take a piss during their visits of homesteads in the village of Zabovci.

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Kurent holds a drink during the door-to-door rounds. Traditionally, only unmarried men were allowed to wear the kurent costume. Today, married men, women and also children wear the costumes and participate in festivities.

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Two kurenti run across a field in the village of Zabovci. Groups of kurenti visit households in villages in northeastern Slovenia to chase away evil, and winter.

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Kurent and devil behind him walk on the road in the village of Zabovci. They had received handkerchiefs at homestead they had already visited.

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Two kurenti surround and jump with a girl during The International Carnival Parade in Ptuj. Jumping around people is part of their traditional activities. During the Parade kurenti continuously look out for girls that are watching the Parade, bring them into the parade and then jump with them. Afterwards girls tie handkerchiefs on their jezevka, a wooden bat with hedgehog spikes that kurenti used to use use as a weapon.

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Hundreds of kurenti from all over Slovenia descend on Ptuj for the traditional International Carnival Parade.

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Nowadays, kurenti participate also in large carnival parades. Here, kurent masks are stored in the coat-check area of a Carnival hall in Ptuj.

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A group of kurenti from the village of Zabovci passes a group wearing Donald Duck costumes during fasenk - a village parade where modernity and tradition mix.

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At each homestead they visit, kurenti are offered food and drinks.

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Kurenti enter Slovene national parliament in the capital Ljubljana. Every year, a group of kurenti visits the parliament to bring good fortune to politicians and to secure pledges of government support for festivities in the northeast of the country.

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Kurenti chat and flirt with girls in the capital Ljubljana. Every year kurenti from northeast of the country come to Ljubljana where they visit the national parliament.

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Carnival festivities last for days in northeastern Slovenia, and begin with korantov skok - korant's jump. At midnight kurenti start to dance, ring their bells and run around a pyre. But they're not allowed to wear their masks yet.

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Marko Klinc fixes the coat of the kurant costume in his workshop in Spuhlja pri Ptuju. Sheep skins are used for the coats and masks and all costumes are hand made to order.