#FolkloreThursday "Dožinjalica" is a cock which is slaughtered at the end of the harvest. Among the Serbs from Croatia it was believed that "grain will yield plentifully next year only where dožinjalica is eaten"... 
On Tobolić, at the end of the harvest, the harvesters would tie the housewife with ropes. They would then light up a fire in the field where the last sheaf of grain was cut, and would "pretend to burn her in the fire"...
They would let her go only after "she promised them a dožinjalica". Similar customs were also recorded among Serbs from from Northern Dalmatia...
There, the harvesters would "grab the housewife, cary her to a fire burning in the field, where they would pretend to roast her over the fire..." or they would "put the sickle under her throat..." so she would "promise them better dinner"...
In some parts "housewife was tied to the stožer, the central column of the threshing floor..." until she promised them "a good end of harvest dinner"...
It is interesting that in some other places, Serbs actually sacrificed a cock to the central threshing floor column at the end of the harvest...
Here we see obvious replacement of the human sacrifice with the sacrifice of a cock...
From: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/11/catchi…
Here we see obvious replacement of the human sacrifice with the sacrifice of a cock...
From: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2019/11/catchi…
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