Kissing below the Mistletoe

Is widely known in Poland and in the Polish community , for good luck etc if you kiss beneath the Mistletoe?

Hmmm. This gives me good ideas.

How about letting us in on your ideas:)

I would but I fear children might be looking at this website. :)

I hope not ,some of the discusions are near to the mark. I thought this was only for adults, is that right ADMIN?

Hi!
As far as I am concerned this custom is relatively a novelty here. It was taken from the West just a few years ago, before that time hardly anybody had had some mistletoe in their houses. But at present people sell and buy mistletoe very often. Yesterday I went to a local market and saw plenty of mistletoe sellers there. Hope I could help you. Cheers!

My [polish] girlfriend has never heard of this tradition, she’s 25 years old and from Silesia region, a small town, not a city.

Certainly I’ve never found any suggestion of it playing any part in Slavic folk law historically. Both the Norse [Scandinavians] and the Celts judged it a sacred plant associated with fertility, although the custom of kissing under mistletoe seems to trace back to Norse pre-Christian belief.

From an entirely practical point of view, encouraging sexuality around the time of the winter solstice makes a lot of sense. Firstly the food is running out, we don’t have refrigeration and salt [the main type of preservative] isn’t cheap or widely available- so an orgy of consumption begins. Also a child conceived around the Winter solstice will be born in September, which is a time of plenty, thus ensuring the best chance of survival for the child .

Thanks guys, it was a big help. At least i know not to put my foot in it at a party. :)

I always thought people conceived in the winter because they were trying to keep warm. :)

Maybe it's a mixture of both? :)


Finally I know where did this custom came from. Thanks SW.

Frigga can be one frisky goddess :)

ooooohhhhhh just freakin relax like this topic is going to cause school shootings, violence, drunk drivers....

like there is soo much more to be concerned about

lol. Those aren't the kinds of things I was concerned about.

excuses excuses......:P

I concieved both of mine girls in the winter, I was friggin freezing. lol

Were you doing your ‘conceiving’ in a tent or a canoe- LOL.

Anyway, have some empathy for your partner, we all know what cold does to men…

I think that in the past cold wouldn’t have been an issue, in the Norse/Celtic [later Romano- British, Anglo-Briton ~ even into late Feudal times although by then it would be the lord‘s property] society the Solstice celebration would have been held in a communal building around a fire, that fire was important and we see remainders of its importance in the ‘Yule log’.

The harvest was completed, the beer was brewed, the animals that were considered uneconomic to be supported through the winter were slaughtered [sorry Mr Pig, you’re first because you provide no useful by-product such as milk, wool or eggs]- and there was the sure knowledge born of experience that not everyone was going to survive the winter, perception of mortality is a powerful aphrodisiac, and what more fitting icon to herald procreation than Mistletoe, the plant that miraculously bursts into life when all around it appear to fall into decay?

also squeeze a berry from the mistletoe, what does it look like? Now reach for the tissue…

LOL , no, but that isnt a bad idea lol

usually by the time we get back from the long trip, we are pretty much
to exhausted to find the energy to even move lol.

both my girls were conceived in November, both born in August.

something about November :) lol