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New year in Poland is celebrated with great fun and fervor. The New Year’s Eve is a major celebration in Poland that is followed by the New Year celebrations. The New Year is a day to enjoy and have fun for the people in Poland. The New Year celebration includes a hayride into the forest. Here a bonfire is lit and people are served with sausages and bigos with a little hair of the dog.
The New Year’s Eve in Poland is celebrated at more or less formal balls. It is a New Year custom in Poland for a New Year’s Eve ball to begin with a Polonaise.
The New Year’s Eve in Poland in the past has given in to unpunished pranks of all kinds. Bread baking is regarded as an important New Year custom in Poland. Different animals like sheep, cow, geese, and rabbits were in the ancient times used to shape the dough. The people in Poland believe the custom of baking doughnuts to bring wealth for the whole year. These doughnuts are called paczki in Polish.
Another important New Year custom followed by the people in Poland on New Year is hiding breads in the shapes of a ring, cross or a child at the dinner table. These were
also used for telling fortune.
This New Year custom in Poland it is believed that if anyone found a ring, marriage awaited. A cross-found would indicate an entry into clergy and a child signified a child out of wedlock.
Yet another New Year custom that is believed by the people in Poland is that those who wake up early on the New Year’s Day will wake up early for the rest of the year. The customs in Poland take the ancient roots although some of the customs are followed even to this day.
The New Year custom in Poland is that when getting up from bed those who touched the floor with the right foot would expect good luck the whole year through.
The custom followed on New Year in Poland to become rich is putting change in a small bag and running through the fields shaking the bag and making a lot of noise. Although this New Year custom in Poland seems to look funny the people in Poland believe it to be true and follow some of these New Year customs even to this day.
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