Ivan Kupalo

[Natalia Pylypiuk]

Dear Mr. Wilson,

- For an introduction  to the observation of Kupalo (Kupajlo) in
Ukrainian lands,
see the entry KUPALO FESTIVAL in *Encyclopedia of Ukraine*, ed. by
Volodymyr Kubijovyc[hachek] vol. II  (CIUS, U of Toronto Press, 1988),
pp 714-715.  This entry mentions 13th and 16th cc descriptions of the
festival.

- Also see the monograph by the Ukrainian scholar Oleksandr Potebnia
[in Russian]:
A. Potebnia, *O kupal'skikh ogniakh i srodnykh s nimi predstavleniiakh*
(Moscow 1867; Kharkiv 1914)

- for a discussion of Kupalo in the Volyn' region (Ukraine):
Lesia Ukrainka, "Kupala na Volyni," *Zhytie i slovo* (L'viv, 1894)

-among the Ukrainian Lemkos  and in the Pres[hachek]ov region, the
festival was called
Sobitka:  M. Shmaida, *Sobitky* (Pres[hachek]ov, [Czechoslovakia]1963)

- for a collection of Kupalo songs, see:
O. Dei (ed.) *Kupal's'ki pisni (Kyiv, 1970)

-for an attempt to explain the transition from Kupalo to Ivan Kupalo:
http://golosiyiv.com.ua/news_o.php?id=45

- Art Vertep has an entry on the festival with images of contemporary
renditions
of the chuchalo / opudalo:
http://artvertep.dp.ua/news/329.html
- a contemporary celebration is depicted on
http://artvertep.dp.ua/news/197.html

- Other articles (some with texts of Kupalo songs)  in Ukrainian:
http://www.ukrinter.com/gn_article.asp?ID=4622&NID=30&LEVEL=3
http://www.krainamriy.com/kupala.html
http://www.refineua.com.ru/pageid-4161-1.html
http://litopys.org.ua/hrushukr/hrush107.htm

-The Greek-Catholic Church in Ukraine approaches the topic from a
tolerant, syncretistic
point of view:
http://www.ugcc.org.ua/ukr/library/calendar/6/
(This article cites the ethnographer S. Kylymnyk's study
*Ukraiins'kyi rik u narodnykh zvychaiakh, vol. IV)

Best wishes,
N. Pylypiuk

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