I am so glad that I did not grow up in a Polish culture! I would have been beaten to a pulp as a young man if I attempted to throw water on the girls that I liked then attempted to hit them in the legs with willow or birch branches. Wow, what a holiday?! By the way, my wife, the former Missy Janczewski, comes from a Polish and Russian family, but has never heard of Dyngus Day. Alas, the Borgification of culture in Lucedale, Mississippi.
(A picture taken of boys filling buckets and water pistols with water drawn from a town water pump on Easter Monday in Skwierzyna, Lubuskie, Poland. In Poland this day is known as Ĺmingus Dyngus and is a tradition, which involves boys running around the villages, towns and cities of Poland throwing water on others. Tradition states that girls who get caught and soaked with water will marry within the year.)
Dyngus Day (Smigus Dyngus)
by Melissa Block
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All Things Considered, April 21, 2003 · NPR's Melissa Block talks with Mark Kohan, editor in chief of the Polish-American Journal, about the Polish holiday of Smigus Dyngus -- better known as Dyngus Day or Wet Monday. On this day in Polish tradition, boys soak girls with water on the day after Easter. The tradition lives on among Polish-Americans, especially in Buffalo, N.Y., where dozens of parties, complete with polka music and squirt guns, are scheduled today.
(A picture taken of boys filling buckets and water pistols with water drawn from a town water pump on Easter Monday in Skwierzyna, Lubuskie, Poland. In Poland this day is known as Ĺmingus Dyngus and is a tradition, which involves boys running around the villages, towns and cities of Poland throwing water on others. Tradition states that girls who get caught and soaked with water will marry within the year.)
Dyngus Day (Smigus Dyngus)
by Melissa Block
Listen Now: Windows Media
All Things Considered, April 21, 2003 · NPR's Melissa Block talks with Mark Kohan, editor in chief of the Polish-American Journal, about the Polish holiday of Smigus Dyngus -- better known as Dyngus Day or Wet Monday. On this day in Polish tradition, boys soak girls with water on the day after Easter. The tradition lives on among Polish-Americans, especially in Buffalo, N.Y., where dozens of parties, complete with polka music and squirt guns, are scheduled today.
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