#czech traditions

[toxictaicho]

St. Nicholas gang - 11th Division

pencils, marker

Nicholas – Ikkaku

Hates his wig and beard.

Holds bishop's staff like Hozukimaru.

Kids are afraid of him.

Devil – Zaraki

Don't have to put on makeup, only activates bankai.

Kids, their parents and anyone they meet on streets are afraid of him.

Wants to spar with every parent.

Angel – Yumichika

He made costumes for them. Was cursing during it, because thought they're ugly.

Kids are afraid of him too, but not that much like of Nicholas and Devil.

He's often rude to people.

And they don't know there's another group...

[archivistmyrya]

I feel like the internet needs to hear about judas buns.

If you have even a passing knowledge of the New Testament, then you know Judas was the guy who betrayed Jesus Christ for 30 silver and then hanged himself.

So the Czechs asked "Can we make a dish around this?" and didn't wait for an answer.

This soft sweet pastry is traditionally made for Easter Thursday (google tells me it's called Maundy Thursday in English) and usually takes a form of various knots and spirals to symbolize a rope. Some take this metaphor a step further, as shown by my mother, who hands covered in flour asked me "Do you know how to tie a noose?"

When we speak of fucked up Czech traditions, we usually think of whipping girls with willow sticks in exchange for eggs. But I believe baking rope-like buns in "honor" of a guy who hanged himself should be up there as well.

[enlitment]

for the ask game!

13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that might seem strange to outsiders?

13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that might seem strange to outsiders?

Oh boy do we. I tried to explain it to slightly horrified-looking Western Europeans more times than I could count.

Basically, on Easter Monday, we have a tradition of men whipping women with a bundle of sticks tied together. They recite a poem while doing it and after it, the women give them a decorated egg. It's usually interpreted as a fertility ritual.

I fully realise it sounds kind of terrifying, but I promise it's not as bad as it sounds. It's mostly symbolic. Like you don't go full-on with the whipping unless you're a total jerk. There has been a lot more emphasis on consent in the recent years. There's a window of time when girls can get their revenge by splashing water on the boys as well.

I've also recently found out about the Roman festival of Lupercalia and ever since then, I kind of see it as the Lupercalia's spiritual successor?

[oraclekleo]

Just a reference to my comment under the hobbies ask.

It's called 'Vizovické těsto' in Czech.

I'm not sure whether there's an English term for it, if there is, educate me.

These are not meant for eating as they are really hard after baking. This dough is used to make like Christmas tree decorations or table decorations for various festivities.

You really only need luke warm water and all purpose flour. You add as much water to create a compact dough. Then you have to work it with hands so it's nice and smooth and it can take an hour, for real. It should rest wrapped in cling film or plastic sack in a fridge for about 2 hours, then you can start making the figures. If you want them to look glossy like the ones on pictures, smear them with egg white. The figures should again rest and slightly dry out for 2 hours on the counter. You bake in an oven set to 120°C for about 4 hours until hard.

And that's it. It's a Czech tradition and there are several motives that had symbolic meaning. For example if you made a dove and gave it to someone, it meant you wish them peace in family, or a fish was often given to mothers in law as an encouragement to keep silent. Czech people knew how to nicely say to shut up. 😂 Let me know if you want me to list all the meanings.

You obviously can make anything out of the dough.

So yeah! This is what I was doing as a child.

Sorry. I just wanted to explain.

[zoyazoy]

I love drawing European folk dress so much even though I am Thai ♥

[s-u-w-i]

Three more requests! I meant to make them all black&white but well, green knight somehow doesn't work all that well without green 🍀

IX. The Green Knight for romanodegois and @a-gremlin-for-my-thoughts VIII. Otesánek eating his mum for msdearcos who asked for folklore's creature from Czechia VII. for christine.kasparian who asked for spooky fairytale for the autumn season. I chose czech fairy tale Hádanka (Riddle) about this queen who made household items from the bones (and hair) of her lover to take a revenge on his killer.

Enjoy! 💀

[tofiam]

We have a tradition of Saint Nicholas with an angel and a devil (well, on of the lower devils, something like a demon hell entity called čert) visiting children on early december and scaring them shitless.

Like almost everyone you ask has at least one childhood trauma connected to this event. And we still do it. And parrents still pay for it.

I offer to trade that for Mari Lwyd.

"It's Christmas!"

[pagan-stitches]

I was reading a book a few years ago that took place in Russia (The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden) and it mentioned characters sleeping on the stove when it was the depths of winter. And, I’m like, what? This was before I’d become proficient with using google translate.

A bit later I saw Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973, above photo) and realized my own ancestors may have had stoves/ovens quite unlike my own.

And so I had to begin to dig. I was reminded of this search the other day when I wrote a post about the Czech/Slovak fairytale The Twelve Months/Moons and ran across this illustration (illustrator unknown):

So I leapt back down the rabbit hole and found more pictures of old cottage ovens/stoves. Some are newly built for modern homes, some are old ones rebuilt, and some are museum recreations.

Tiled stoves have been experiencing a resurgence in popularity in recent years, and there are many reasons for this. That's why people are having new ones built, but it's also possible to keep old stoves running or bring them back to life.

While in the past, tiled stoves, cookers or ovens were often demolished due to space or apparent impracticality, today many cottage owners are trying to preserve or restore them, even at the cost of expensive repairs, or to return them to the house in a new form.

However, typical and in many ways irreplaceable for cottages are more rural types of stoves, which often included an oven or furnace as well as a stove with a cooking hob. They form the natural heart of the house and the dominant feature of the kitchen, where they are a source of heat and a place for preparing food, where you can dry wet clothes around them and even sleep on them. No other heater can replace that.

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[cable-salamdr]

Sora but she’s Czechoslovakian and hungry for Kapusnica and Gulaš every single day (aka me)

+ Some Swiss Landchinder Arin and Sora (because of my Swiss Arin hc) but they’re fully decked out in stereotypes, with the only accurate thing being the spiderman backpack. They’re headed to the Reuss to jump in and get to school (/s, however it’s one of my fave myths that I once saw somewhere)

[owlmaya]

i drew bingyuan celebrating easter the czech way!

to explain: on easter monday the boys hit girls with a braided willow whip, which is supposed to keep them young, and in return they give the boys easter eggs (sometimes they also add a ribbon to the whip)

it’s a pretty unique easter tradition, so aside from it being silly and fun, i also wanted to share it (because im czech)

[toxictaicho]

St. Nicholas part 1

[kivzz]

Viktor nation more like Czech nation gr

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Emanuel Krescenc Liška (Czech, 1852-1903) Christ on Mount Olive (Thy Will Be Done!), 1886 National Gallery Prague “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). - The Bible.

[ejmina]

Since it´s still Christmas time, and fairy tales are still running on TV, I decided to draw my favourite princess, princess Lada from czech tale - Princezna se zlatou hvězdou na čele - 1959

[zoyazoy]

I'm back from break hoorah! Here's some girls of europe !

[s-u-w-i]

Few more sketches from Mami, pocem! (Mom, c'mere!) the book I worked on this January. It's getting printed right now and should be released soon!

Written by @irenahejdova and published by @hostdetem. Big thanks to them for the opportunity! 💖