Name day of everyone named Sylvia, Sylester, Goran, Goritsa
(silva means forest in Latin, while gora means forest again, but
in BG - both associated with strength and freshness), Serafim,
Ognyan/a, Plamen/a. In some villages it is also called Karamanov
Day or Rinatchov Day. On the evening before young men go to
propose to the young lasses and to demonstrate that they are
capable of keeping house. They enter the stable and shovel out
the garbage. The hosts leave a bag full of food: sausage, bacon
and a bottle of wine as a treat, hanging the bag on a nail
behind the door. The young woman secretly puts in a branch of
box-tree for her beloved, tied with a bright red thread and
wrapped in a multicolored cloth - a sign that she is waiting for
the matchmakers to come. The consequences for the hosts
who?forget? to give them the treat are truly harsh - very often
in the morning they find their stables overflowing with dung
brought over from neighboring houses. Their daughter is doomed
to become the laughing stock at t