Bosnian Magic

Showing posts with label folk belief. Show all posts

Showing posts with label folk belief. Show all posts

Jul 14, 2016

Rue – plant which one nurtures better than a child

Sedefil, sedef or sedefat, also known as rue, Latin name Ruta graveolens, is the most famous plant in magical tradition of Bosnia and Herz...

Sep 9, 2013

Kahvendisanje in Bosnia

Historically coffee stems from the kingdom of Kaffa in Ethiopia, from where it gained its name. In one of the oldest legends about coff...

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Bosniak: Bosnia-Hercegovina, like its Ottoman, Habsburg, and Yugoslav predecessors, is a multinational state. Today, most citizens identify themselves as one of three groups: Bosniaks (Illyrians)(48 percent), Bosnian Croats (Slavic, 14 percent), or Bosnian Serbs (Slavic, 37 percent). In addition to Slavs, smaller groups Bosnian living in the region for centuries include Albanians (Illyrians), Germans, Roma (Gypsies), Jews, Romanians, Turks, and Hungarians. Capital: Sarajevo; Population: 4,007,608.

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