SLOVAK TRADITIONS

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SLOVAK TRADITIONS
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Slovakia is a little big country with a lot of
traditions.It seems that in our country there
are not so many traditions but I would like to
show you that the opposite is true.
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What is traditional in Slovakia???

• Slovakia is a country with 5.5 mil. inhabitants
• It has only 49 000 square km but many kinds of
  people live there. We are a colourful nation
  with a lot of traditions from the past.
  Traditional works were handworks, for men
  outside, for women inside... Traditional food
  traded mainly in poor families is bread with salt
  and potatoes.
• Other traditions are Slovak holidays...

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New Year and Faiangy

• New Year is the first holiday in the year, and it
  is like in other countries... But from Epiphany,
  what means from 6th January to the beginning of
  the Easter period there is holiday called
  Faiangy.
• This holiday is traded like a holiday of the time
  between winter and spring...People all over the
  country eat, drink and enjoy life, they have
  fun, and make shindigs, but the most
  characteristic is organising balls in this
  period.

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Easter

• This feast is known all over the world, but in
  Slovakia there are some differences.The most
  interesting is Easter Monday- this day young
  boys and men whip and water girls with cold
  water or parfum, and the girls and women give
  them presents, for example colourful eggs ...
• We have an old custom of making Easter eggs
  which are painted.
• The typical Easter meal is smoked ham, sausages,
  eggs, cakes and potato salad.

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Morena

• It is and old tradition to make a doll called
  Morena in spring and throw it into water, but it
  is usually only in small villages. Morena
  symbolises the death of winter and coming spring.

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Labour Day-1 May and Saint John night

• In the past boys used to decorate a tree with
  colourful streamers which symbolised life.
• this night superstitious people make a fire in
  front of their houses to protect them from bad
  ghosts...

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All Saints Day- 1th November
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Saint Nicolaus Day- Mikulá

• Very nice and popular feast for children is Saint
  Nicolaus Day on 6th December. On this day
  children put their shoes on the window. They get
  sweets, fruits or small toys into their shoes.
  Adults dress a mask of St. Nicolaus, devil and
  angel.

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Christmas

• At Christmas we send Christmas cards, we buy and
  decorate a Christmas tree. On Christmas Eve many
  people go to church. We open the gifts on
  Christmas Eve after the dinner! Sauerkraut and
  fried carp with potato salad are traditional
  meals. There are also old traditions connected
  with Christmas for example a coin is given
  under the table to bring a lot of money next
  year.

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The last Slovak tradition, which I have to
mention are folk dances...

• So these were Slovak traditions... Hopefully, you
  know now more about Slovakia )