Polish tradition

Song sung on the wedding night

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Musician playing old Polish wedding song

Today glimpse on Polish tradition - probably the oldest polish ceremonial and wedding song. Song was singing during 'oczepiny', 'pokladziny', and in sleeping room of just married couples.

Oczepiny - it is the wedding part, when all guest gather on t [ … ]

 

Pater Noster and the saber

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Fight with Tatars (near eatern borders)

In the second half of the seventeenth century Polish nobility developed certain behaviors and habits that led to Sarmatian bravery and willingness to defend the faith and the homeland.

 

 

 

Return of the Living Dead in Warsaw (Zombie Walk)

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Zombie Walk in 2008

Zombie Walk is an interesting annual event in Poland in which hundreds of people dressed up as zombies march through the streets of Warsaw. It looks really scary, especially that sometimes they're fought by the army, which is of course fake. The wh [ … ]

 

Love magic - seductive tricks

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Love's Passing by Evelyn de Morgan

In Old Poland love magic (though repressed by the church) was very popular either among nobility, peasants and citizens and even at the royal court.

 

 

 

Mustache in Polish Republic - determinant of cultural and social position

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HAirs and mustache from Piast dynasty

Mustache in Poland were always very popular. Just one look on old portraits it's enough to see that that polish magnates, oligarchs, kings and nobles - all of them had magnificent mustaches. Today however almost every man shaves his face to zero.

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