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Easter Monday traditions & folklore
At my home town of Bellingen, NSW, Australia, it is an ancient Easter Monday custom (dating from a recent year) to put away the washing, microwave Good Friday's hot cross buns, make a cup of tea and write to one's friends abroad with tales of ancient folk customs ...However, Australia is not the only country with a heart-warming sense of culture and community: thankfully there are other places of the world where Easter Monday is commemorated just as richly. Poland is one of these, and Dyngus Day is its Easter Monday. It is also called: Smigus, Smingus, Smyngus, Splash Monday, or Wet Monday (Mokry Poniedzialek or Lany Poniedzialek).
Poland's Dyngus, or Smigus, Day is said to hark back to the baptism of the founder of Polish Christianity, Prince Mieszko I (c. 935 - 992), and his entire court, on Easter Monday, 966. Dyngus is an ancient celebration which is still observed both in country villages and the big cities, with singing, pranks, visiting friends' houses, and the custom of dousing.
The custom of pouring water is an ancient spring rite of cleansing, purification, and fertility – at this time of year there are drenching customs enacted in Sri Lanka and Thailand during their respective New Year celebrations. In a Spring custom of pagan (pre-Christian Slavic) times, the Poles 'confronted' (dingen) Nature with their pouring of water and switching with pussy willows to purify themselves for the year ahead. The alternative name for the day comes from smiganie, meaning 'switching' ...
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A marriage not made in heaven
1795 The Prince of Wales, later to become King George IV (1762 - 1830), met his first cousin and future bride, Caroline of Brunswick (1768 - 1821), at St James Palace. He was unimpressed with her, saying to the courtier who introduced them, "Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy." George and Caroline were married three days later.The Prince married his cousin only to convince Parliament to pay off his debts of £650,000. Their marriage was a disaster, both parties being disgusted with one another at their first meeting. After doing their official duty for a period of a few days, they lived apart for the rest of Caroline's life. Caroline was not attractive, but her main shortcomings in the eyes of her new husband were her lack of personal hygiene and the fact that she was apparently not a virgin. For her part, she found him fat, ugly and rude. Recently discovered correspondence of the prince's reveals that the couple only had sexual intercourse three times in the whole of their married life ...
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1906 Lord Buckley (Richard Myrle Buckley; d. November 12, 1960), eccentric, joyous American monologist of the 'Beat' era. His death, probably from a stroke aggravated by malnutrition and a kidney ailment, has been often reported to relate to the seizure of his New York City Cabaret Card ...
Today in the Book of Days we have video of one of Lord Buckley's bizarre performances
1994 Nirvana lead singer and de facto head of the grunge generation, 27-year-old Kurt Cobain (b. 1967) committed suicide by putting a shotgun to his head and pulling the trigger, at his Seattle home.
Though the suicide verdict was accepted as the official version, it soon became apparent that his reported suicide was not an open and shut case ...
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