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Christmas Eve in Moravia

Christmas Eve around Brno (Brněnsko)

In Líšeň the bakers sold ščedrovice before Christmas — big braided wheat loaves, the local name for the vánočka. Around Slavkov a girl filled twelve walnut half-shells with salt, one for each person she was thinking of: she would marry the one whose salt grew damp.

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Sources

  1. F. Bartoš & C. Mašíček, Líšeň (1902), p. 38
  2. F. Bartoš, Moravský lid (1892), p. 18