#Beharovice

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I think I just stumbled across something at least related to drowning Morana in my Great Grandparents home town. It was labeled “Smrtka” which google translated to grim reaper/banshee.

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Easter rattles in my great grandparents village, Beharovice, South Moravia, Czechia.

the evening of Green Thursday (Zelený čtvrtek), every boy in the village equips himself with a wooden rattle (řehtačka), which is specially made for the purpose, the boys form a group and walk through the village, rattling their rattles vigorously, so the noise can be heard from afar. The meaning of the rattling is to chase away Judas. The same procedure repeats on Good Friday (Velký pátek) and one more time on White Saturday (Bílá sobota) when the boys don't only walk through the village but stop at every house in the morning and rattle until they're given money, which they then split between themselves.

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I found pictures of Masopust (carnival) in the little village that my father’s grandparents came from.

More here: https://www.obec-beharovice.cz/mestys/fotografie/masopust-2011-beharovice-193cs.html

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And then I found this: “While Morana is the name in Czech as well as in Croatian, Serbian and Slovene, she is Marzanna in Polish, Morena in Slovak, Marena in Russian, and Mara in Ukrainian. In Czech, she is sometimes simply called Smrtka, a version of the word for death.”

I think I just stumbled across something at least related to drowning Morana in my Great Grandparents home town. It was labeled “Smrtka” which google translated to grim reaper/banshee.