May 2024

In writing about traditional Podlasie ‘towels,’ the author (1) states: “Another type of ritual towel was the offering towels, so-called abrochnyje, which were placed in places of special contact between man and God, such as roadside, pomorovy, or cemetery crosses, as well as in churches.” Here I will add on the side that such white, …

Priest Lukash from Greater Kozhmin writes around 1410 c. about an interesting custom he read about: „”I remember that in my youth, I read in a certain chronicle that there were deities in Poland. Hence, to our times, such a ritual has survived – namely, dances performed by girls with swords, as if as an …