Christmas Eve in Bohemia
Christmas Eve in the Šumava foothills (Pošumaví)
Around Klatovy the better-off ate fish soup and fish “na černo” or “na modro”; poorer homes had roasted-flour soup, noodles with curd cheese or gingerbread, mushroom dumplings, buchtičky and černý kuba. Everyone ate muzika — dried plums and pears — and had to taste every dish, because each had a meaning. A white Christmas loaf that cracked in the oven foretold a death.
Boys bound the trees with straw at dawn, the shepherd blew his horn under every window, and the gifts were brought by the Jesulátko during the dawn mass: nuts, apples and sweets left on a plate in the window.
Try it at home
Make sure everyone tastes every dish on the table — in Pošumaví each one carried its own wish.
More Christmas Eves nearby
- Christmas Eve in the Highlands (Horácko)
- Christmas Eve around Hlinsko (Hlinecko)
- Christmas Eve in Chodsko
- Christmas Eve around Plzeň (Plzeňsko)
- Christmas Eve in Prácheňsko
- Christmas Eve in Doudlebsko
- Christmas Eve in Blata
- Christmas Eve in Kozácko (Tábor area)
- Czech Christmas Eve, hour by hour