Quiz «Death and lullabies»

Poor peasant families did not have enough food to supply all children and asked God to take their lives

Nope! Such lullabies were supposed to deceive the death. The Slavs believed that newborns existed on the border of our world and the afterworld. Children were vulnerable to supernatural power and mothers tried to deceive the death, telling it that their little ones are about to die anyway and there is no reason to hunt them.

Bye-bye, lyuli,
Die finally today.
Tomorrow will come the frost,
We'll take you to the graveyard.
We will cry, we will wail,
And we'll bury you in the grave.

Such lullabies were supposed to deceive the death.

Correct! The Slavs believed that newborns existed on the border of our world and the afterworld. Children were vulnerable to supernatural power and mothers tried to deceive the death, telling it that their little ones are about to die anyway and there is no reason to hunt them.

Bye-bye, lyuli,
Die finally today.
Tomorrow will come the frost,
We'll take you to the graveyard.
We will cry, we will wail,
And we'll bury you in the grave.

Such lullabies were sung to sick, disabled or bastard children in order to relieve them of suffering.

Nope! Such lullabies were supposed to deceive the death. The Slavs believed that newborns existed on the border of our world and the afterworld. Children were vulnerable to supernatural power and mothers tried to deceive the death, telling it that their little ones are about to die anyway and there is no reason to hunt them.

Bye-bye, lyuli,
Die finally today.
Tomorrow will come the frost,
We'll take you to the graveyard.
We will cry, we will wail,
And we'll bury you in the grave.

It was a joke – mothers and nannies of those times considered the wish of death to their children an anecdote.

Nope! Such lullabies were supposed to deceive the death. The Slavs believed that newborns existed on the border of our world and the afterworld. Children were vulnerable to supernatural power and mothers tried to deceive the death, telling it that their little ones are about to die anyway and there is no reason to hunt them.

Bye-bye, lyuli,
Die finally today.
Tomorrow will come the frost,
We'll take you to the graveyard.
We will cry, we will wail,
And we'll bury you in the grave.