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| | Paparuda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The name is probably derived from Perperuna, which in its turn is a Slavic (south slavic) goddess, or as Sorin Paliga suggests, is a divinity from the local Thracian substratum |
 | | Like the Dodola (dudula, dudulica, dodolă in Romanian, dudulë in Albanian, tuntule in Greek, dudulya and didilya in South Slavic languages), which is another name for the same custom, and other ritual Paliga argues is of Thracian origin, the Paparuda is found only at Romanians (păpărudă), Aromanians (pirpirună) and South Slavs (peperuda, perperuna) |
 | | The name of Dodola is possibly cognate with the Lithuanian word for thunder: dundulis |
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