Quote Originally Posted by MrsKlug View Post
Also, I remember my grandmother saying something about bread and pumpkins. Like when a boy ask a girl to marry and she gives him a pumpkin it means that she is saying yes or no... I wasn't really paying attention (nervous excitement and all). I wish I did! Does anyone know what that means? Or what she was talking about?
I don't know whether it was a real tradition or not but it was mocked in a comedy movie "Maksim Perepelitsa" (imdb, wiki-rus). A young man when going to serve in army sent a pumpkin to every other young man in the village pretending that it was sent by his girl-friend to make all the young men to think that his girl-friend doesn't like any of them. So he wanted to be sure that she would wait him and would not have any affairs with someone else.