Jun 5, 2025
First Fruit Offerings on Semik (Thursday of Green Week/Rusalia)
Green week is only fleetingly mentioned in my primary sources about Czech calendar customs as Rusalia. It is described as the echo of old pagan customs honoring the dead.
So even though in much of the Slavic world this week is devoted to appeasing a particular type of ancestor—the unclean dead—I’m just focusing on honoring my ancestors in general.
Since birches are heavily associated with Green Week, after I gave Děduška his first fruits, I headed down to the river birch to leave some for any spirits that might be hanging out there.
