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Main - - Culture - The Palm Sunday   The Palm Sunday (Verbnitsа) was celebrated on the last Sunday before Easter. Everywhere in Belarus consecrated willow was brought from the church. When they met, people greeted each other with pussy willow whipping wishing health for the entire year. Pussy willow was kept in the house as protection against storms and fires, it was used in a peasant family for the first grazing of domestic animals, in the treatment of various diseases, etc.     Site Search: check any of the words check every word © National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 2011