Goose fights in the Serbian village of Mokrin

• Goose fights in the Serbian village of Mokrin

Mokrin - this is the biggest village of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is famous for the traditions of goose fights and Easter egg fights.

100 years ago, there lived a village doctor Bogdan Sedyakov. As befits a doctor, he helped people, was friendly and outgoing and loved to joke. The locals are very fond of her doctor, who was a first in many respects: he had a car, he was the champion in the "egg fights" at Easter and the owner of the most powerful goose, goose party fights.

Mokrin village, 160 km from Belgrade, February 22, 2015. (Photo by Marko Djurica):

Many years later, someone in the memory of the rural doctors revived goose fights and Easter egg fights. Through this Easter tradition in Mokrin gather Serbs living abroad

To the shell was stronger hens "sit" on a special diet, the secret of which was not disclosed. Recognize without errors eggs champions only locals who for generations grind their knowledge. It is not surprising that the winners of this World Cup so rarely foreigners. During fights egg is broken eggs so that their shell resembles a real multi-colored carpet.

Lead soldiers. Mokrin village, 160 km from Belgrade, 22 February 2015.

In Russia, goose fights - almost extinct fun, which was once very popular, along with the fighting cock. Goose fights in Mokrin village, 160 km from Belgrade, 22 February 2015.

Preferably, they were held in February and March, when the snow is loose and soft. In XVIII-XIX B. c. often used the two most aggressive breed of geese: Arzamas ohotnytsky fighters and fighters.

Goose fights in Mokrin village, 160 km from Belgrade, 22 February 2015.

At the insistence of the Society of cruelty to animals, recognized the fighting immoral and cruel pastime, they were not admitted into the Russian Empire.

Goose fights in Mokrin village, 160 km from Belgrade, 22 February 2015.

The battle continues usually for about an hour and usually terminates flight side.

According to the tradition, while in the Serbian village of Mokrin are goose fights in the village Lozovik 100 km from Belgrade every year, jumping over bonfires, trying to exorcise evil spirits.

By Easter egg fights ready! The village Lozovik, Serbia, February 22, 2015.

Demon. The village Lozovik, Serbia, February 22, 2015.

As far as the goose fights in Russia in the XXI century, these battles, though much less frequently, but are held. In particular, the year they can be observed in the Pavlovsk district of the Nizhny Novgorod region in the village Molyavino, as well as in the Vladimir region.

Mokrin village, 160 km from Belgrade, 22 February 2015.