This document summarizes Palm Sunday traditions in the town of Tvarditsa, Bulgaria. It describes how on Palm Sunday, children go to church with willow branches and flowers to be blessed by the priest. After the service, they take the wreaths home to protect against evil. It also describes a tradition called "kumichene" where girls stand along the riverbank and drop wreaths or bread into the water, with the first to fall out becoming "godmother" to the other girls for three days of Easter celebrations. The document also mentions a charity concert organized on April 17, 2015 in Tvarditsa to support graduates.

1. Seven letters from Bulgaria
Traditional holiday and game in my town Tvarditsa 2015 year the children are from
my school and from other school in our region .
Palm Sunday falls on the Sunday after St. Lazarus, one week before Easter and is one of the
most beautiful spring holidays. It is dedicated to the solemn meeting of Jesus Christ in
Jerusalem with olive and laurel branches. So on this day all go to the traditional church liturgy
with willow branches, bunches of geranium and other spring flowers. After the priest
consecrated willow wreaths, they relate home and placed in front of the home icon. With
these women stale against the evil eye and diseases. Often in the summer months when the
darkness and rain city, they exported willow wreaths yard and uttering magic spells, look
through them cloud to spread it further.Usually runs on Palm Sunday last lazarski custom -
"kumichene". Before lunch all lazarki head en masse to the river. Each girl brings a bunch of
flowers, willow wreath or a little bread, called "doll". Girls are arranged side by side along the
coast or on the bridge over the river and simultaneously placed wrist gum or bread. That girl
whose wreath or bread to fall quickly out of the water and out first is selected for "kumitsa" or
"godmother" of the girls. From that moment she becomes the object of special respect and
honor from the other girls. On the third day of Easter-girl godmother invites all lazarki at
home and treating them with pastry and red Easter eggs. This general feast ends and festive
lazarski complex through which girls demonstrate their new social status and suitability for
marriage.

4. Charity concert in support of graduates siratsi- on 04.17.2015 organized by the Municipal
Council of the Bulgarian Red Cross Tvarditsa,and Secondary school,, "Neophyte Rilski"