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00:00 The preparations for Christmas began in the time of Advent.
00:07 Advent began four Sundays before Christmas
00:13 and was the beginning of the liturgical year in the Church tradition.
00:20 At that time, people in the village were aware of certain works,
00:24 women did not sow flax on Saturdays, men did not do field work,
00:32 because it was believed that whoever plows the land will get sick for seven years.
00:38 Before that, it was also necessary to clean the house thoroughly,
00:44 the pots were cleaned because fasting was observed
00:48 and no animal fats were used for dishes,
00:53 even butter, and meat was not eaten at that time.
00:58 In the morning, people went to the church for the Rorate.
01:04 The biggest preparations took place a few days before Christmas.
01:13 Then gingerbread was baked, which decorated the floors,
01:19 the house was hung at the foot of the tree,
01:27 it could be pine, and it was decorated with nuts, gingerbread,
01:32 fruit of the gourd, wild rose or various colored ribbons.
01:38 The Christmas tree in the village huts appeared relatively late,
01:45 at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in Wielkopolska.
01:50 Earlier, it decorated the interior of the townhouses,
01:55 it was not our family custom, but it came with the German settlers.
02:02 The Christmas trees were also decorated with decorations like apples,
02:07 straw ornaments, and then mothers and children sat down
02:15 and made chains from pieces of straw,
02:20 and also figures of angels, boys, and simple forms of spiders.
02:28 On the shelves, instead of a floor,
02:32 a spider was also hung from the last pine tree collected during the harvest,
02:40 a more decorative one.
02:44 At the beginning, it had a form of a clay ball,
02:48 straw straws were inserted into it,
02:50 and at the ends, it was decorated with paper decorations in the shape of flowers.
02:57 As for the next customs,
03:02 the weather was observed from St. Lucia, on December 13,
03:07 and based on it, it was predicted what the weather would be like next year.
03:14 So another 12 days were observed from December 13 until Christmas,
03:21 and the weather was equivalent to every month next year.
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