#dziady 3

[moominmanoneandonly]

The beef polish authors had with each other no raper can ever recreate.

Kordian is one of the worst books to read, but I like it purely based on the fact that it's a diss on Mickiewicz and anything that criticizes Mickiewicz counts as a work of art.

Leave me alone, you egocentric bitch! If you had access to Twitter, no one would have to suffer.

[bitwa-lektur-szkolnych]

Dziady cz. III – Adam Mickiewicz

vs

Lolek. Opowiadania o dzieciństwie Karola Wojtyły – Piotr Kordyasz

[ineffablelvrs]

"zemsta, zemsta, zemsta na wroga, z bogiem i choćby mimo boga" BANGER would do millions on here

[ahopefulbromantic]

I just realized the most tragic thing - that I cannot gush about 31st October being Dziady / Forefathers' Eve because it's a Polish thing and none of my mutuals know what it is and no really good translation of the dramatic works exists to have them read it :(((

It's like a traditional Polish Halloween and nowadays it's mainly known from Adam Mickiewicz's (he's to Poland what Shakespeare is to England) 4-part drama centered around it. It follows a tortured poet (my blorbo, I love him) during the time Poland was partitioned and erased from the maps, its people oppressed but always fighting back. It is one of the most important and culturally significant Polish works ever created. And it's got, like so many themes, so many themes you guys. It's one of my favorite works ever one of my all-time dreams is to play Konrad, a protag from part 3.

So if anyone does know it or is interested in finding out more please please please message me or drop an ask I'd love to infodump!!!

[appalachy]

Matury sie zaczynaja a ze ja moja pisalam chb 3 lata temu to wam moje ulubioe przypaly opowiem jako przestroga zebyscie uwazali, do jednego z tematow rozprawki mielismy fragment lalki i tam wokulskiego ktos nazwal stachem cnie ze ej stachu co ty taki zmizerowany czy cos, i niektorzy geniusze uznali ze 'stachu' i stanislaw wokulski to dwie rozne postacie i tak pisali w tych rozprawkach nieszczesnych xdddddddddddddd stanislaw wokulski i jego dobry kolega stachu 👍 ja sie z nikogo nie nabijam bo sie zdaza ale przyznajcie ze smieszna sytuacja, nie robcie tak koledzy. Oprocz tego fragment lektury byl do rozpoznania, z tego co pamieatm to zemsta, u mnie w klasie kazdy sie chwalil wpisaniem zupelnie czego innego jako odpowiedz xd ktos pana tadeusza dal inny strzelil ze wesele xd

[iguessitme]

One day i need to make an art for every charter of Dziady .

[five-raccoons-in-a-trenchcoat]

something something characters praying but God doesn't answer, characters questioning God something something characters thinking they are better than God, characters pretending to be God choking on their own pride something something

[contentloadingandstuff]

About Me

Hello there!

It's been three years, so it's high time to tell you guys something about myself.

Here I go by contentloadingandstuff - just 'content' for short. I'm male, straight, born on the same day as the world famous aquarelist - the 20th of April. I have a younger sister and a cat, named Kota (she-cat in Polish, sort of). I'm studying law, but I'm unhappy with it and waiting to jump over to psychology.

I'm from Poland, the land over the Vistula, of the blooming onion, the eternal occupation/invasion joke. While Poland isn't in the top echelons of the world, I'm still proud of our history and happy to see my nation develop. I'm fluent in English, but I can also understand German on a basic level, read the cyrilic alphabet and speak a tiny bit of Japanese.

I've been playing Genshin Impact since Shinobu's release in 2.2. AR 50, did most things you could do in the game. My favorite character is and was always Ganyu. I've started writing for the game for two reasons - first, my dusty old Necro AU and the lack of male reader content in terms of fics. I'm quite happy to have this blog. You can find me under Polski_Cynamon on the Europe server.

Although my interests are very broad, my hobbies focus primarily on gaming, cultural analysis and writing. I'm a big World War II buff, but the history of warfare in general also catches my fancy. Truth be told, I could get into and talk about any topic really. Except politics - at least not on the blog. I'm not afraid to argue my points, just not here. Thanks for understanding.

Now for some quick trivia. Here are some...

Games I like: Genshin Impact (obviously), Company of Heroes 2, FnaF 1 - 6, Dungeon Keeper, Payday 2, The Forest, Witcher 3, Vermintide 2, Hotline Miami 1 & 2, Battlefield V, Helldivers 2, Warlords Battlecry 3, Dark Omen, Shadow of the Horned Rat, the Myth series, Papers Please.

Youtubers I watch: The Little Platoon, Horses, Despot of Antrim, Saveafox, TheBones5, Chickeninja42, Junkzero, ZERO, Fingees, AstralSpiff, big boss, Shrouded Hand.

Books, stories and Authors I like: "Ferdydurke", "Hauptstellung Moskau", H.P. Lovecraft, V. Suvorov, "The Red Hunger", The "Fazbear Frights" series, Tadeusz Borowski, The "Abandoned by Disney" series, "1999", "Dziady III", SCP-5000, SCP-1730, The Spiral Path.

Movies and Shows that I like: Downfall, Stalingrad (1993), Warsaw 44, Burnt by the Sun 2, The Pacific, Letters from Iwo Jima, El Alamein: La Linea Del Fuoco, Barefoot Gen, Hacksaw Ridge, The 800, Das Boot, Black Adder, Monthy Python - Holy Grail and Life of Brian, The Pianist, Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopathra (if you know why, you know), American Psycho, Halloween (2018 and only this part of the new thrillogy), Hellraiser I and II.

Music that I like: All over the place. Includes the remix of Perfect Girl, Freaks, Cheri Cheri Lady, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Everybody Wants to Rule the World (both og and remix), Brainiac Mainiac, Operation Blacklight, Confirmed Thrills, Another Round for Everyone, Miami Disco, The Forest: Main Theme, Friday Night Fire Night, I Really Wanna Stay At Your House, Addict, Do Prostego Człowieka - Akurat, Czerwona Zaraza, Encounter Z Mixed.

I'll be adding on to this page as time goes on. But for now, it's gonna be all.

Curious about something? Don't hesitate to ask!

[madelinetess]

If Poland ever does its own reboot of the Ghosts this is the list of things I hope appear in it:

1. I absolutely need, and I mean NEED a hussar ghost. I already posted about it, but I think this would be sth genious. Doesn't even have to be like a regular cast member, just a one-off with a hussar ghost in full armour, wings and all (the costume would be very impractical and heavy in the long run, but just have them be a recurring guy or sth)

2. I am going to need so many Mickiewicz references... Like, you don't understand the amount of poems and works of his that could work great in many cases - Romanticism is the literary epoch of folklore and ghosts etc. Give me Józio i Rózia or Dziady... Oh yes, give me Dziady subplot/episode

3. Ghost carp fish swimming in the bathtub, only visible for a week around christmas, mentioned in passing during a christmas episode

4. one of the ghosts is a typical Dresiarz (troubled youth in a tracksuit, you know the type) but he has a heart of gold actually

5. I would like to have regional dialects and languages represented, particularly someone that speaks Silesian (Gwara Śląska) just because I think it could be important to share/educate people on it (also I'm silesian, and having my culture represented in a positive way would be hella nice)

6. a gag in passing about a ghost named Marzanna who drowned iykyk

7. The Ghosts (if their abilities line up with it) get nicknamed by slavic demons and folklore creatures names (like Strzyga if one of them has the ability connected to sounds - like Alberta in the US version)

8. Obligatory Polish wedding episode where the old house is rented out as the venue and one of the uncles gets so drunk he can momentarily see the ghosts but that doesn't affect him that much, he just keeps going

[cimacally]

what are your fav books?? lmao I've been trying to find more to read :))

omgg thanks for the ask!!

° obviously DPS (still prefer the movie tho)

° The Secret History which gives off similar vibes (...it's rotting on my bookshelf rn but I SWEAR I'll read it someday and I know I'm gonna like it)

° Harry Potter cause I'm basic

° Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

° LOTR/Hobbit/Silmarillion

° The Witcher

° Carlos Ruiz Zafón's books (like Marina for example)

° idk if it's available in English but in Polish it's "Sekty szatańskich bogów", it's a book abt famous cults that really existed

° The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

° House of Secrets (by Chris Columbus)

° A Little Princess (my mother likes it too) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

° Polish classical literature, I think it should be translated to English, like "Balladyna" by Słowacki or "Dziady" by Mickiewicz

° and other Polish books but I don't think they're translated :/ (for example Mieczysław Gorzka's criminals)

° The Modigliani Scandal

° Bullerbyboken (it's in Swedish cause it's a Swedish book but idk how it's called in English lmao) by Astrid Lindgren

° Wonder by R. J. Palacio

° ur not gonna guess - idk the English name again 💀 but it's about Calpurnia Tate, by Jacqueline Kelly

° Desert Flower (autobiography by Waris Dirie). It contains sensitive parts cause the woman who wrote it went through a horrible life so search it up before buying <3. It's still a valuable book to read and Waris is an amazing person.

And many more but those are the ones that went through my mind 😭😭

[chicago-geniza]

Wake up babe they made the Pamiętnik Teatralny issue on Dejmek's controversial Dziady production available for free, huge news for PRL theaterheads or for people like me who write about the political uses of this play in pre- and postwar Poland. Jelonka wrote a kickass review btw. Not in this issue obviously she was not alive in 2005. But when the play happened

[skrzynka]

warunki do ruchania villagerów iirc to jest jedno łóżko na każdego villagera + kida [więc jak masz tylko starych to i tak musisz mieć 3 łóżka żeby mieli dziecko], i muszą mieć żarcie [pamiętam że akceptują chleb i marchewki, wiem że jeszcze jakieś dwa inne typy żarcia ale nie wiem jakie]

wymagajace dziady

[ineffablelvrs]

car z kordiana był homofobiczny "chcesz ocalić kordiana?" "chcę! chcę! chcę!" "i właśnie dlatego zginie" ok homophobe ??????

[hedgewitchgarden]

What is dziady?

But speaking seriously: Dziady (in English: Forefathers’ Eve) is a Slavic holiday, dedicated to the spirits. It allowed you (presumably) to contact the other side. After the Christianity entered the Polish territory, Dziady was forbidden, and the practitioners were persecuted. Not fully successfully. Dziady stopped being celebrated across the country, but in many places (preferably distant from the religious centers) was practiced for many years. In Polish literature tradition was preserved thanks to our great poet Adam Mickiewicz and his poetic drama Dziady.

Slavic religion veneration of the dead was very important. It was believed, that spirits may have huge impact on material world. They were connected with fertility and abundance. That’s why Dziady hold so high place in the calendar of Slavic holidays. Dziady was celebrated twice a year (considering major holidays, there were also smaller, more often celebrated festivities) – around May the 2 and on the night of 31 October/1 November. It was the time of change, when the border between realms of the living and the dead was very thin, and spirit could go back to the temporal world. People could try to gain their favor then.

How were the souls hosted?

Our ancestors made sure to appropriately accommodate deceased relatives. Food and drinks were left for the souls. The important function of dziady was also to help spirits to get to the other side.

To assist them, people were lighting the campfires, that were showing them the right direction. Fire was also used to prevent wraiths from infiltrating our reality – that’s why the campfires were lighted on the graves of people who died violently or committed suicide. Campfires were often set on the places of their death. Grave candles are remnants of these traditions.

Rituals were conducted in former places of worship – on the hills, under the holy oaks, where the pagan temple were built, or in the cemeteries. Believers were using wooden masks (“karaboshkas”) as a decoration – you can associate them with Halloween pumpkins. As the time passed, more and more christian traditions were included into the Dziady celebration.

Dziady was celebrated in Poland, but also in Eastern Europe countries, such as Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

Apart the rituals, Dziady was connected with many other customs. On this day it was common to pay beggars (with food, small objects and even money), so they pray for the souls of deceased ancestors. It was believed that, there is connections between beggars (in Polish also known as Dziady) with souls (which were called by the same name). That’s why they frequently were given the favorite food of dead relatives.

Feasts for the souls were prepared in human houses – so the families could eat together with the souls. During this time, there were special rules. It was forbidden to pour out the water (to prevent wetting the spirits accidentally), to knead cabbage (to avoiding stomping on the ghost) and to bang fist on the table (to not to scare off any spirit). At the time of the feast, ancestors were the only topic of conversations.

Today

Nowadays almost no one practice Dziady in Poland (except, of course, neo-pagans), but there is description of the rituals from the beginning of XX century, from the Latowicki region. People were gathering on November the 2nd. The meeting took place in an old house, then everyone went further – among others, to sacred spot, where back in the days were burial place. The ritual started with the prayer. In the center, there was a fire. Ritual was conducted by two persons: Old Man and the Sorcerer. They were summoning ghosts, which later were fed with fasting food, soaked in milk and honey. It was believed, that souls need to eat and they stay in the Afterlife as long as they are kept in mortal memory. During the celebration, everybody were quiet, and all the faces were covered. Who did otherwise, risked being taken by the ghosts. Ritual was finished before midnight.

These traditions survived in collective consciousness thanks to, mentioned earlier, Mickiewicz. Vision of the poet had strong impact on common picture of folk rituals. Many works of culture were influenced by his poem. For example: in video game Witcher 3: Wild hunt, one of the sidequest was based on Mickiewicz’s Dziady.

[romanticfistfightz]

hiiii helllo!!!! hope you had goodnight <33

anyway. polish spn yapping cause im super not normal.

honestly i had in my mind that deans impala is. maluch. like. get it? BABY. though i guess it doesnt make sense cause its a small car and he needs space to hide bodies and stuff. or maybe he has a trailer or something

i think. since poland is kinda small country. broń brothers would hunt on the whole continent. like they had to learn 100% english and phrases in other languages. just yknow. euro travelling <33

also. mwn of the letters. this is the thing im the most normal about. so they were there since. Centuries. like still when we had kings and shit. they were kinda like wiedźmini, later became more like librarians. lol. they survived rozbiory and were the whole polska podziemna stuff yknow. they died in ww2. lmao. (also. daniel deserved to kill htler btw <33). also. im NOT normal about this. okayy soo men of the letter were. always on november 1st. doing the whole dziady thing. adam mickiewicz was invited to one of them and he was like. wow. im gonna write a book about this! so he did. and then daniel i sebastian, as legacies, decide to also. do this shit. and because they are broń brothers. smething goes wrong <3

okay. thats all for now !!! save me polish spn sAVE MEEEEE

hii yes it was good other than misha collins being there and running a . kind of a thrift shop but for mexican made and mexican-like stuff?? but also it wasnt really mexican i guess there was some handmade porcelain too and when i went in to buy sth he blocked my way and told me im late to therapy . so . also i didnt have to go to the office today bc life loves me and the id cards system broke so it wouldnt even log in that iw as there ^_^

also yess ive been thinking abt polish spn too 2days ago i spent like 40mins doing research abt cars to decide which one to give them also i will talk more abt it when i finish the art cuz i dont wanna spoil it too much<3 but yeah to make it super polish i decided to make it . not daniel bron but daniel strzelecki bc strzelba still counts and strzelecki is much more of a polish last name 🥰 also imo itd be fun if they went on the whole continet but keep more to eastern europe cuz theyd have beef with like . french hunters that take care of the west more or sth. and daniel knows polish and english which is useful yeah but not when they go to some fuckass nowhere in latvia and seba is fluent in those and also like . russian and idk hungarian and can communicate a bit in other languages so its easier for them to do jobs

i dont remember the men of letters thing in 100% but maybe like . 75%. but yesss thats so fun also mickiewicz man of letters imagine him getting invited then writing a book and then men of letters being like hey. thats not cool dude ! stop writing abt real shit and he was like yeah okay but people think im just very smart and creative so fuck you . also mickiewicz man of letters kinda and slowacki was a hunter and that's why they didnt like each other much. or something .

[gnatswatting]

• Dear are the friends seen even in a dream / Since, while we wake, so few friends faithful seem. —Adam Mickiewicz

Orig. Polish: Drodzy są i widziani we śnie przyjaciele, / Gdy prawdziwych na jawie widzim tak niewiele.

Polish Romantic Drama: Three Plays in English Translation Forefathers' Eve · Part III (translated by George Rapall Noyes with revisions by Harold B. Segal) Polish Romantic Drama: Three Plays in English Translation Forefathers' Eve · Part III (translated by George Rapall Noyes with revisions by Harold B. Segal) (at Internet Archive)

Adam Mickiewicz: Utwory dramatyczne DZIADY · CZĘŚĆ III Adam Mickiewicz: Utwory dramatyczne 3 DZIADY · CZĘŚĆ III (at Internet Archive)