Spring Feast is a day when Winter meets Spring.
The rebirth of the forces of nature has numerous ways of celebrating this day.
Some dressed a
straw doll in white clothes and adorned its head with a crown made
with branches of hawthorn. The so-called Morena doll was carried
around the village in this apparel, accompanied by the sound of rattles,
to be finally burned or drowned, thus saying goodbye to death and
disease. Those who are more devoted to Морена // Morena would usher Morena doll by burning down the candles and singing songs, to make her welcome in the winter.
Others would decorate eggs as a symbol of the rebirth of life. A pattern would be drawn on the shell with melted wax, with brown or red coloring obtained by dipping the egg in a dish with onion peel or ochre.
Celebrated deities: Мокош // Mokosh, Велес // Veles, Морена // Morena, Девана // Devana