Then a Franciscan padre comes with a pail of water and besprinkles the prisoners.
"Through Five Republics on Horseback"
G. Whitfield Ray
A few days before the celebration the priest comes to the house of every svetchar-the man who as the chief of the family celebrates the saint-in order to bless the water which has been prepared beforehand for that purpose in a special vessel; after this he besprinkles the heads of all the members of the family with the holy water, into which he has dipped a small sprig of basil.
"Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians"
Woislav M. Petrovitch