Christmas Eve in Moravia
Christmas Eve in Horňácko
On Christmas Eve night the girls of Horňácko went “na zbrody”: with a jug they visited every spring and stream around the village, taking a little water from each. Whoever washed in it would be “precious to the lads”.
Christmas Day was so holy that no fire was lit in the kitchen — everyone ate what had been cooked on Christmas Eve, beds stayed unmade and floors unswept until the afternoon.
Try it at home
Cook enough on Christmas Eve to eat cold on Christmas Day, and keep the 25th free of cooking — the Horňácko way.
Part of Slovácko (Moravian Slovakia).
More Christmas Eves nearby
- Christmas Eve on Haná
- Christmas Eve in Wallachia (Valašsko)
- Christmas Eve in Moravian Slovakia (Slovácko)
- Christmas Eve in Podluží
- Christmas Eve in the Moravian Kopanice
- Christmas Eve in the Luhačovice Zálesí
- Christmas Eve in Moravian Záhoří
- Christmas Eve in the Highlands (Horácko)
- Czech Christmas Eve, hour by hour