Smigus Dyngus

Happy Easter to my friends, and hopefully tomorrow will be a dry day for all.

Lany poniedziałek (Wet Monday), is a Polish Easter Monday tradition which, in short, involves people throwing copious amounts of water at each other. The reason I was told is that this is a way for boys to show girls they like them and in some cases, the boy that soaks the girl ends up winning her and possibly getting married. Now it can be a full blown water fight but more with spray bottles, water balloons…. not necessarily buckets of water. Fortunately I never saw this but heard about it. I also remember seeing college kids doing it but with glass of water or water pistols. I think because I was a foreigner I was spared. Oh traditions. 😉

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