"Laithwaites" <laithwaites@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Zycze wszystkim odwiedzajacym te NG -
> Radosnych Swiat Wielkanocnych, smacznego
> jajka i mokrego Smigusa Dyngusa...
>
> http://www.kamela.waw.pl/holidays/Easter/Easter.html
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V21ccX3wWxU
Smigus Dyngus * Easter Monday
Easter Monday is a holiday in Poland. Wet Easter Monday (Dyngus Day)
was traditionally the day boys tried to drench girls with squirt guns,
buckets of water, and much more. The girls got their chances for revenge
the
following day. Now the Monday is usually celebrated by everyone drenching
or
sprinkling each other. According to Rev. Krysa, Dyngus Day is a
commemoration of the birth of Christianity in Poland (966 A.D.) in which
Holy Baptism was administered to Prince Mieszko on Easter Monday, uniting
all of Poland under the banner of Christianity. The Dyngus custom is also
reminiscent of the mass Baptisms that took place in the Lithuania after
the
marriage of Polish Queen Jadwiga and Lithuanian Duke Jagiello.
Smigus Dyngus (shming-oos-ding-oos) This term now refers to the
Easter
Monday drenching custom, although once signified a kind of house-to-house
Easter trick or treating that has survived only in a few rural areas. The
merrymakers often pulled along a special cart with a live or wooden
rooster
and received treats and drinks from the households they visited. American
Polonian descendants of the 1890s-1930s immigration often celebrate Dyngus
Day with a polka dance.
* Dla Dzieci / For Kids: Dyngus Day to Print & Color
* See Czechowicz Painting: Jesus appears after Resurrection
* Listen to Dynatones' The Resurrection
(Pol-Am Polka band from Buffalo, NY. Song is from Chapter VII,
their concept album on the life of Christ)
External Link:
* Read more online about the history of Dyngus Day
http://annhetzelgunkel.com/easter/eastdyngus.html
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