Godfatherhood among Mohammedans, 1889

Leafing through the folk songs of the Mohammedans in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a careful reader will quite often notice verses mentioning the ritual kinship, godfatherhood [kumovi]. I will quote some verses as examples: ”Lika kumom bio kod djevojke.”……(Lika was godfather to a girl) ”Evo t’ kuma, bega udbinjskoga.”…..(Here is your godfather, bey from Udbina) ”Pa mu sinu kosu kumovao”….. (So  […]