#Autumn Traditions

Traditional Ukrainian dishes like shpundra, gartna kasha, and dushenina served for centuries as a natural energy source and salvation from autumn blues.

The ethnographic archives of the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Literature and Styler materials describe how the Ukrainian ancestors, by autumn omens — from the Day of Simeon the Stylite to Pokrova — predicted the weather, the harvest, and the timing of weddings, while observing strict taboos.