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main consisted of games, dancing, and carousing, are dismissed with brief remarks. In April the Slavs on the banks of the Havola (Havel) used to celebrate a national festival in honour of Gerovit;14 in Wollin the populace assembled for a pagan festival in early summer;15 and in 1092 Břetislav suppressed certain feasts observed about Whitsuntide, when oblations were offered to springs.16
Popular tradition, however, still preserves many customs and ceremonies whose origin may be traced back to the pre-Christian period; and these we shall briefly consider in our concluding chapters.
