From: Torsten
Message: 67391
Date: 2011-04-26
> >No, I meant, wouldn't people get in trouble in ex-Yugoslavia outside of Serbia if they did anything with three fingers that might resemble that Serbian greeting?
> > Am 25.04.2011 14:58, schrieb Torsten:
> > > 'exclusively used by ethnic Serbs'
> > >
> > > > This means ... nothing.
> > >
> > > You ... don't know that.
> > >
> > > > Orthodox Christians hold their fingers this way:
> > >
> > > No, Serbs do that. Greeks don't. Russians don't.
> > >
> >
> > I am not sure if this is one and the same as the Serbian do but
> > indeed when making the sign of the cross, the Romanians do the
> > same. That is, they put together the 3 fingers and with them
> > "bound" that way they make 3 times the "cross".
>
> Hm. What do you do when you are on vacation in Dubrovnik? Isn't it
> kind of dangerous?
>
> More to the point: Does anyone who can't suspected of being a
> descendant of Sabazios-worshipping Thracians do it?
>
> My best friend is a Serb who was born in Krajina but grew up in
> Nish, he goes to Dubrovnik a lot and says he has no problems.
> Maybe the three fingers refers to 3 fingers of slivovic