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Christmas Eve in Bohemia

Christmas Eve in the upper Jizera valley

In Rovensko pod Troskami jahelník — baked millet — was made on Christmas Eve “so there would always be enough money in the house”, but only in a new baking pan; and three spoonfuls of groats on an empty stomach kept your throat well all year.

Part of Krkonoše & Podkrkonoší (Czech side).

More Christmas Eves nearby

Sources

  1. J. Košťál, Časopis SPSČ 11 (1903), pp. 110–112