Geese on yokes: to Republic of Bashkortostan carried out an unusual ceremony

In Belokataysky district Republic of Bashkortostan remembered ancient tradition "a ҙ m әһ e" (in translation from the Bashkir language a ҙ-a goose, me – to help). It is one of known ceremonies the Bashkir when relatives, sometimes neighbors, gather that together, with occurrence of the first winter cold weather, to clean geese, ducks from down whom since ancient times in the Bashkir villages kept much. The head of the area Ilgiz Subushev congratulated locals on the holiday beginning on the official page on a social network "VKontakte". – In personal subsidiary farms of the area holidays "kaz mse" – at owners of poultry began...