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SevoosMinecraft t1_ja6xsfv wrote

As a russian, I don't get it, what's wrong? Btw, actually I have never seen someone burning this "doll" during the feast

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Embarrassed-Neck-721 OP t1_ja8k22v wrote

There was this thing in Europe somewhen by the end of middle ages called inquisition.
A lot of people were killed just because someone thought they were dealing with the dark forces.
And execution for "witches" frequently was to burn them alive (or at least that's what I heard, I didn't do a research, actually) bc they thought witches are made of wood or smth idk

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SevoosMinecraft t1_jab0zc7 wrote

Oh, my teacher told me about that, pretty sad... how weird wouldn't it be, the doll is a symbol of winter and people burn it down when winter ends and spring starts in order to completely "say goodbye"

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