"Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely"... In this blog we tell you about our life in Krakow Poland. Use the link below if you are curious about the trips we enjoyed while we lived here. And please, leave us a comment, we would still love to hear from you all...
Monday, April 25, 2011
Easter Monday Tradition
"Smigus Dyngus" or Wet Monday. If you are in Poland or many other Eastern European countries this day (Easter Monday), watch out for buckets of water being tossed about. Traditionally it is a fertility ritual from way back. The custom of pouring water was an ancient spring rite of cleansing, purification, and fertility, and now-a-days, is practiced by young males towards young females. But we were warned that even the opening doors of the city tram sometimes would open to "hoodlums" and their buckets of water.
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/04/21/6507371-annual-watering-of-the-girls-goes-back-centuries
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