SPRINGTIME

The german word for this bird is “ Kuckuck “.In former times girls asked, when they heard the first Kuckuck: Cuckoo how long will I be alive? And how many times the cuckoo made his famous sound – that many years you could expect. Or girls asked : Cuckoo, how long will it take till I’m going to be married? And the same: you counted how often the cuckoo called his own name.  Nowadays nobody wants to be married that´s why that tradition got lost.
The Basque word for that bird is "Kukua"The belief is that if you have money in your pocket when you hear it for the first time that year, you will have money through the whole year.

There are some beliefs concerning cuckoos also in Latvia: we have to be very careful in spring not to leave home without some breakfast and at least some coins in the pocket. If you hear the first cuckoo having no food in your stomacks and no money in your pockets, you won't have food and money enough the whole year.And our cuckoos count also our years left

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Spring is a time for celebrations in many countries. They welcome the new season and simbolize the change in different ways. This is what we have gathered from:

POLAND

A Polish tradition: Marzanna

Students making a Marzanna and taking it to Vistula river

BULGARY

Bulgarians also welcome spring full of enthusiasm

Bulagarian Martenitsa