Pasterka (a midnight mass celebrated between December 24 and 25), the gorzkie żale (bitter lamentations devotion), and święconka (blessing of easter...

of Poles make an effort to participate in the sacrament of penance before Easter, 59% make an effort to attend the Stations of the Cross or Gorzkie żale...

Bunny Emaus (festival) [pl] Fat Thursday Funeral of żur and herring [pl] Gorzkie żale Kurek dyngusowy [pl] Pisanka (Polish Easter egg) Palm Jesus [pl] Przywołówki [pl]...

erect a new shrine. In the 18th century this became the origin of the gorzkie żale tradition. The main building was constructed between 1679 and 1696...

also supposed to bring luck. The ritual is known mainly to Ukrainians, Poles, Slovaks, Slovenes, Serbs, Croats, and Bulgarians. It is believed that the...

Maslenitsa effigy out of straw, decorated with pieces of rags, and fixed to a pole formerly known as Kostroma. It is paraded around, and the first pancakes...

herring • Roduś • Rękawka • Żandary • Siwki • Maypole • Fat Thursday • Gorzkie żale Summer Noc Kupały • Sobótka • Wyzwolenie kosiarza • Oborywanie przepiórki...

Estonians, Georgians, Hungarians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Macedonians, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Serbs, Slovaks, Slovenes, and Ukrainians, decorate...

ritual. A pole to which the kite will be tied is placed in the centre. The village leader or the executioner begin to circle around the pole, driving the...

Belarusians. In the center of the Kupala bonfire, Belarusians would place a pole on top of which a wheel was attached. Sometimes a horse's skull, called vidʹma...