Škoromatija, a Shrovetide custom

Photo: Miha Špiček, 2010.

Škoromatija is a Shrovetide custom on the southern edge of the Brkini hills and around Podgrad. On Shrove Saturday or Sunday škoromati go around the houses collecting gifts and on Ash Wednesday they bury or burn Shrovetide.

Photographs of the bearers

<i>Škoromatija</i>, a Shrovetide custom.
Hrušica, 2012.
Filming and editing by Nadja Valentinčič Furlan, translated by David Limon, produced by the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Coordinator for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2016, 10 minutes. 

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