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  • 15/01/2025
During the Surva festival, Bulgarian villagers dressed in colourful costumes dance around a bonfire to drive away evil spirits and bring in good health and a harvest for the New Year.

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00:00During the Serva festival, Bulgarian villagers dressed in colourful costumes dance around
00:07a bonfire to drive away evil spirits and bring in good health and a harvest for the new year.
00:15Serva is held every January in villages across Bulgaria and is a mixture of Christian and
00:19pagan rituals that can be traced back for generations.
00:27The dancers are known as cervikas or kukas and some wear handmade wooden masks which
00:32can be up to 2 metres high.

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