The burning of the badnjak is a ritual which is most certainly of pagan origin, and is considered a sacrifice to God so that the coming year may bring plenty of food, happiness, love, luck and riches.

The burning of the badnjak is a ritual which is most certainly of pagan origin and it is considered a sacrifice to God ( or the old pagan gods ) so that the coming year may bring plenty of food, happiness, love, luck and riches.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

It is difficult to pinpoint the time of origin of the state purchasing automobiles for use of employees in Rhode Island.

There is an oral tradition among the members of the population in regard to the origin and subsequent separate status of the group in the larger society.

Apparently their origin is humble, their approach to life direct and unsophisticated.

If the cutting force, Af, is plotted against film thickness, a straight line should result passing through the origin and having slope Af.

Because the food is selected with thought for its nutritional value, care for its origin, and prepared in a manner that retains the most nutrients, the food does taste good.

The material is all basically of folk origin, gleaned from every section of Poland.

The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from Anatolia, which is the origin of Sibyl, and where existed some of the oldest oracular shrines.

Because all clades are represented in the southern hemisphere but many not in the northern hemisphere, it is natural to conjecture that there is a common southern origin to them.

Wormwood, a genus that includes the sagebrush, is used as a source of flavoring for absinthe, a bitter classical liquor of European origin.

The debate is over the origin of their similarities.

Allegiance is formed from " liege ," from Old French liege, " liege, free ", of Germanic origin.

Angst means fear or anxiety ( anguish is its Latinate equivalent, and anxious, anxiety are of similar origin ).

German Alpen is the accusative in origin, but was made the nominative in Modern German, whence also Alm.

This religious explanation is supported by modern Pueblo beliefs about a North Road leading to their place of origin and along which the spirits of the dead travel.

The precise nature of the origin of this urn is matter of dispute.

As neither tune is attributed and both show elements of oral transmission, scholars can only speculate that they are possibly of British origin.

Virtually nothing is known of his parents, family background, or origin.

It is clear that widespread respect was paid to animals as the abode of dead ancestors, and much of the cults to dangerous animals is traceable to this principle ; though there is no need to attribute an animistic origin to it.

In certain obscure magical writings of Egyptian origin ἀβραξάς or ἀβρασάξ is found associated with other names which frequently accompany it on gems ; it is also found on the Greek metal tesseræ among other mystic words.

The Bohr model of the atom fixed the problem of energy loss from radiation from a ground state ( by declaring that there was no state below this ), and more importantly explained the origin of spectral lines.

By repeating the experiment with particles of inorganic matter he was able to rule out that the motion was life-related, although its origin was yet to be explained.

While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.

However, many of Darwin's early supporters ( such as Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Lyell ) did not agree that the origin of the mental capacities and the moral sensibilities of humans could be explained by natural selection.

Within the context of the four noble truths, the origin ( Pali: samudaya ) of dukkha is commonly explained as craving ( Pali: tanha ) conditioned by ignorance ( Pali: avijja ).

# The soul's sinfulness is easily explained by its traducian origin ( De anima, xxxix ).

Even if the origin of humanity and the world are explained in vodun mythology, it is not a centered question of the faith.

The origin of the name and of a boar ( the scrofa semilanuta ) as a symbol of the city are fancifully accounted for in Andrea Alciato's Emblemata ( 1584 ), beneath a woodcut of the first raising of the city walls, where a boar is seen lifted from the excavation, and the etymology of Mediolanum given as " half-wool ", explained in Latin and in French.

This unusually complex way of adding a suffix can be explained by its reconstructed origin: a voiced palatal fricative.

Much of the remaining half of the genome that is currently without an explained origin is expected to have found its origin in transposable elements that were active so long ago (> 200 million years ) that random mutations have rendered them unrecognizable.

Persistent fever that cannot be explained after repeated routine clinical inquiries is called fever of unknown origin.

The origin of this term is obscure, but is often explained as being derived from the expression voix de ville which means " voice of the city " or " songs of the town.

The gaps were first noticed in 1857 by Daniel Kirkwood, who also correctly explained their origin in the orbital resonances with Jupiter while a professor at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

The origin of the eleven numbered chapters of the novel is explained in a prologue and epilogue, whose narrator is a neurologist.

The origin of the ritual is explained in the prequel novel Dune: The Battle of Corrin when Raquella Berto-Anirul is poisoned by Rossak Sorceress Ticia Cenva with the Rossak Drug.

Henny explained the origin of his classic line " Take my wife, please " as a misinterpretation: in the mid-1930s he took his wife to a show and asked the usher to escort his wife to a seat.

In an interview in 1985, Adjani explained why her mother Augusta used to say her husband, Mohammed Cherif Adjani, was of Turkish origin as she was ashamed of his Algerian origin.

A number of purges were officially explained as an elimination of the possibilities of sabotage and espionage, mostly by a fictitious " Polish Military Organisation " and, consequently, many victims of the purge were ordinary Soviet citizens of Polish origin.

It can be argued that the first toponymists were the storytellers and poets who explained the origin of specific place names as part of their tales ; sometimes place-names served as the basis for the etiological legends.

The name, however, is probably derived from an older language, such as Pelasgian, which was unknown to those who explained its origin.

However, in an interview with WBER radio in Rochester, New York, on November 23, 1999, Jian explained the band's name origin by saying that they were " trying to think of a name that wasn't easy to remember and didn't mean anything ," satirically going against two conventions most bands might use in determining a band name.

A Story of a Song, in which she explained to American children the origin of the song.