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Folk Religion and Festivals

Studies of Armenian legend, church feast and household rite, read with their sources and the moment of their writing in view.

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Armenian Legends and Festivals — Louis A. BoettigerLouis A. Boettiger’s 1920 University of Minnesota study of Armenian legends, from Haic, Ara and Vahakn to the conversion stories and the traditions of Ararat, and of Armenian festivals, church feasts and the rites of baptism, betrothal, marriage and burial, read as the expression of a national sentiment.