#czech moravia

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Natural Art

Amazing farmland near Czech Moravia !

Jan Ulicki

Poland

Neutral Density Photography Awards 2023

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Rakvice🇨🇿

Some beautiful Moravian dresses/costumes from Rakvice, a village/municipality in the South East of Czechia🇨🇿. 

This place has wonderfully preserved their beautiful culture.

You will notice with Moravian dresses, women tend to have large, puffy dresses with their distinctive huge, wide skirts and abundant petticoats underneath.

In many regions in South Moravia, men's costumes typically include a long white embellished ribbon with a decorated cockade on the right side of their vests as you can see above.

I managed to find some older photos from 1959 too♡

A traditional dress/costume in Czech & Slovak is called a "Kroj" (pronounced like kroi). I love how highly and beautifully embellished each garment is from here♡

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Lednice Castle - CZECH REPUBLIC

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Znojmo  -   Oskar Laske, n/d.

Austrian, 1874–1951

Mixed media on paper , 49.5 x 42.5 cm.

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Podhorácko Miku!

Jumping on the cultural representation bandwagon (must say I had to look her up...) with a quick doodle of one of the least obvious Czech / Moravian folk costumes.

I mean, original idea was Valašsko / Moravian Wallachia (part of my own family heritage) but I feel like that's the second most obvious Czech folk costume artists reach for every time they want to be different and avoid the super-obvious Slovácko... Podhorácko is a rather loosely defined border region between South Moravia and Vysočina / the Highlands, where it seems the folk costume doesn't differ too much from Horácko proper and what sets the region apart is rather geography and dialect.

One thing to bear in mind is that folk costumes were never uniforms, and Podhorácko appears to be one of the regions that underline the individuality. I zoomed in on Tišnov (among other reasons like liking the town, the red and white striped skirts are striking and easy to draw) and stole some elements from an old photo of very low quality which I'm guessing is from the 1890s (based on the non-folk-costumed lady in the back), and even there every single person seems to be wearing something slightly different.

Upon reflection, not sure where I came across the beribboned sleeves because Tišnov it ain't. Ah well. If someone with better artistic skills wants to take her on, please do. Yay for cultural representation. 😀

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Czech Calendar Customs Master Post (as adapted into a folk magic practice)

I’m a descendant of Moravian immigrants to the United States who has always been fascinated with family history.  The most recent arrivals in my family from the old world were my Great-Grandparents who emigrated from Běhařovice, a small village in Zjnomo in Southern Moravia,  Perhaps it is because they are my most recent connection to Europe that I’m pulled so strongly toward their traditions.  My great-grandmother is the only family who I have met who was not born in the states. In this post I’ll provide links to my posts documenting my attempts to integrate Czech calendar customs into my practice, as well as other resources.  I am in no way an expert on the customs of Czechia, just a descendant attempting to connect with my ancestors.

Greetings from Běhařovice

Be warned, I also incorporate practices from the British and Irish Isles and, very occasionally, from Quebec to work with other ancestral lines. I try to notate when there is syncretism.

Links to explorations of czech folk customs 2022 and 2024

So far in 2025:

Walnut boat divination

Walnut boat (or in our case hickory nut) divination

Pouring the wax divination

sedm šálků (seven cups) divination

This year I made my vànočka (Christmas bread) on Twelfth Night

Vánočka (braided Christmas bread)

Three Kings Day

Consecrating water on Three King’s Day, January 6

Masopust is kicking off

Annointing this year’s Morana effigy and the Morana embroidery

Morana in her winter apparel

This year’s Morana effigy

An offering to Mezulína

Making Morana Holy Water (my own custom)

Making this year’s hromnička (thunder candle)

This year’s hromnička (thunder candle)

Consecrating this year’s hromnička (Thunder candle)

Eve of Hromnice altar

Making candles for Hromnice (Candlemas) February 2

Perun and Hromnice

“Na Hromnice o hodinu více” = At Hromnice (Candlemas/Groundhog Day or February 2nd) one hour more

Buchty for Saint Blaise’s Day, February 3

The buchty (Czech sweet buns) that I made for Saint Blaise’s Day

Blažeje Blessing, February 3

Caroling on Saint Blaise’s Day, February 3

Saint Blaise’s association with cattle—and Veles

Feast Day of Saint Agatha, February 5

Consecrating water, bread, and salt on Saint Agatha’s Day for use in folk magic.

Happy Feast Day of Saint Dorothea February 6

St. Dorothea Plays February 6

Wrapping up the first week of February (St. Brigid’s Day, Hromnice/Candlemas, St. Blaise Day, St. Agatha Day, and St. Dorothea Day)

Inviting Děduška into our home

Kolàče (I made some for Valentines Day)

A bábovka for my birthday (Feb. 23)

Coaxing Spring with bird pastries

Saint Matthew’s Day Traditions (Folkloric Date — February 24)

Releasing bird buns on St. Matthew’s Day

Waking the persimmon trees on St. Matthew’s Day

Waking the hazelnut and black cherry

Drowning Morana on St. Matthew’s Day

Drowning Morana on St. Matthew’s Day 2

Koblihy (jam filled doughnuts) for Fat Thursday (Feb. 27 this year).

Lišÿí, Fox Sunday,the first Sunday of Lent (this year March 9)

Saint Gregory Day — storks and plowing (folkloric date March 12)

Saint Joseph’s Day (March 19)

Palm Sunday Traditions (this year April 13)

Easter Rattling —Maundy/Green Thursday through Holy/White Saturday (this year April 17 - 19)

Fairy Tales:

Božena Němcová, collectors of fairy tales

The Devil and Old Kitty

The Twelve Months

Folk creatures:

Bludička (will o’ wisp)

Čert (Czech folk devil)

Hejkal (Forest demon)

Klekánice (Kneeling Lady, Lady Evening)

Mezulína (a bitter winter and destructive winter wind)

An offering to Mezulína

Skřítek (house spirit)

Vodník (water demon)

Other:

Old style wood burning stoves

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Joža Uprka – Úvodnice z Velké.

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The Venus of Dolní Věstonice is a Venus figurine of female figure dated to 29,000–25,000 BC. It was found at the Paleolithic site Dolní Věstonice in the Moravian basin south of Brno, in the base of Děvín Mountain in which is present-day Czech Republic.

Source: Ancient Library

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Pernštejn (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) by N/ A

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When we think of the beautiful aesthetics of the Moravian past, most of us only tend to think of the good. But what untold fantastical darkness may lay under that aesthetic?

We may never know now.

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VÁCLAV???

Vašek?? Venca??

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South Moravia, near Kyov, Czech Republic

By AndreJa Ravnak

Travel Photographer of the Year 2023

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Digital sketch based on Joža Úprka’s painting - Jeseň (1922)

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Vranov nad Dyjí Castle - CZECH REPUBLIC

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South Moravian landscape near Kyjov, Czech Republic

© Tomas Vocelka

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The Carpathian Mountains tower over the east, and the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands rise in the northwest, cradling the farming valleys of the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. And though you may think of pilsner beer when you think of the Czech Republic, this is wine country. The vineyards of South Moravia yield most of the country’s wine.

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🇨🇿 View of Brno from the Southeast - engraving by Joris Hoefnagel from Volume 6 of Civitates Orbis Terrarum, published in 1617 Brno is the second-largest city in Czechia, and the largest one in Moravia.