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Slovakia - ;bedtime prayers in Slovak


Expert: Sam - 5/29/2006

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FOllowup

The usual nighttime prayer in English is:

Now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray the lord my soul to keep.
If I die before I wake,
I pray the lord my soul to take.

I remembered one additional word, so I have something like:

boodsme stedy napomotsi
stedy dusha moiya
STELLA opravadju vishnoa

stedy sounded like steady in engish

From what you wrote, the first line of my memory could be the second line in English above. And the second remembered line is probably a fragment of the last line. Or maybe the lines got moved as the prayer moved from laguage to language, or as this memory rattled around my brain.

Thank you so much for your efforts. This is bringing back a lot of good memories. My family was Slovak mother and Lithuania-Polish. Words could have gotten mixed between them.
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Hope this helped. This is one of the most interesting questions I have been asked :-)

Sam

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Hello,

I have sent a couple of emails to some parishes around in Slovakia, but so far I have had no positive response.

Stella gives no clue...

If I find out more, I will get back to you. By the way, do you know which part of Slovakia your family comes from?

Sam

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