Užgavėnės festival

It's a festival that takes place during the seventh week before Easter. It simbolizes the expulsion of winter. We only eat pancakes that day and burn this big big doll made of hay called "Morė" and wear these ugly masks. And there are two people who fight eachother their names are "Lašininis and Kanapinis" and Kanapinis allways wins and that means that we winter is gone. There is a chant too "Žiema, žiema bėk iš kiemo".

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