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A drawing of a podłaźniczka from the Lesser Poland region. Podłaźniczka, polazňička is a traditional Polish and Slovak Christmas decoration. It was usually made from branches or the top of a conifer tree turned upside down, which was then decorated with colored paper cutouts (), candies, apples, nuts, typical Polish świats, or stars and crosses made of straw.
Jasličkári, jaslickare [1] (English: 'The Infant') or betlehemci [2] (English: 'The Bethlehemers') is a Christmas tradition within the Catholic communities of Slovakia where a troupe of young men visit the homes of their neighbors and perform recitations and songs to commemorate the story of the birth of Jesus Christ. [3]
Christmas wafer (Polish: opłatek [ɔˈpwatɛk] ⓘ, plural opłatki; Lithuanian: kalėdaitis [kɐlʲeːˈdɐjtʲɪs], plural kalėdaičiai; Slovak: oblátka, plural oblátky) is a Catholic Christmas tradition celebrated in Poland, [1] Lithuania, [1] Moravia, [2] and Slovakia. [3]
The tradition is recounted by a Slovakian-American family that posted a loksa recipe online, noting: “It does add quite a bit of excitement to your Christmas Eve dinner, but it does raise an ...
In Slovakia, it’s a Christmas dinner tradition for the most senior member of the family to throw some of the pudding (usually made from milk, bread, poppy seeds and something sweet) onto the ...
This tradition is also popular in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Germany, and Croatia. Many people in Finland celebrate Christmas with a trip to the sauna. Santa Claus is also a big ...
Christmas traditions include a variety of customs, religious practices, ... (Ježíšek in Czech, Jézuska in Hungarian and Ježiško in Slovak) brings the presents.
Szaloncukor (Hungarian: [ˈsɒlont͡sukor]; Slovak: salónka, plural salónky; [1] literally: "parlour candy", Romanian: bomboane de pom) is a type of sweet traditionally associated with Christmas in Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. [2] It is a typical imported and adapted Hungarikum.