It is an ancient custom. After the harvest is done, everyone brings to Oseniny his (or perhaps her) fresh bred, so if the village priest is not visible behind the bred mountain, it means “we are ready to meet the winter, hunger does not threaten us”.
Obviously, we reside in a big city, we do not harvest neither wheat nor rye, and we do not bake bred in our homes. We merely respect the tradition.
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