Types pf Mashka
Gawis Mashka/ Gawist/ Mashka Pesta
Cows skin used to make very large-sized Mashka.
Nera Mashka/ Nera
1. A kind of Mashka made of wood.
2. Any kind of Mashka apart from leather ones.
Electrical Mashka/ Electrical Nera
A kind of Mashka that uses electricity to work.
Tin Foil Mashka/ Tin Foil Nera
A kind of Mashka made with tin foils.
Banamashka
Moving to the mountainous areas in order to find more pasture for the livestock so that they would breed and increase the amount of dairy they make. The place where Mashka and the livestock are in the mountainous areas.
Baramashka
The butter that is made in the Mashka after the work is done.
Belief:
If you put some butter in the calf's skin, it will be blessed with more butter.
Mashka Baron
A Mashka that makes a lot of butter.
Beliefs on Mashka
If you hang a yarrow plant, snake tooth, yellow flowers, or Mashka then your Mashka will make more butter.
If you hang a piece of snake's dried skin to your Mashka, it will increase the butter made in it.
The people used to mix seven springs' water and pour it into Mashka to make it blessed.
They used to pour cold water into some particular containers because they believed that this will make the Mashka more resistant and blessed with more butter.
Hanging snakes' dried skin to the Mashka makes it blessed.
Angry Mashka
Sometimes due to the wrong temperature of the water, the Mashka does not work properly and after moving it for a long time, it does not produce any butter. In such circumstances, they say that Mashka is angry.
Custom:
When the Mashka is angry:
1. If it is cold, they add some warm water to it and if it is hot, they add some cold water to it.
2. The person responsible to move Mashka had to leave it, then someone else would come and say this: come back and begin your work again in the name of God.
Spoiling Mashka
Not to work with Mashka due to very cold water and leaving it.
When Mashka is greasy
If the Mashka creates some foam after it is filled with water for a second time.
Freezing Mashka
When Mashka is not working properly because they added very cold water to it and they left it. It is the equal phrase as Mashka goes harsh.
Ruining Mashka/ Wasting Mashka
Not moving Mashka because the proper time has passed.
Belief
When someone comes into the house at the same time as the Mashka has produced a lot of dairy products, that Mashka will not work again.
If a cow licks Mashka, it will be ruined.
