Easter Monday (also called mastic Monday, śmigus-dyngus, Oblewanką, Polewanką,) - the second day of Easter holidays, which is in Poland a day off from work. In the Polish tradition of the day topping up the water jokes other people, even strangers. Pouring water refers to the ancient pagan practices, merging with a symbolic awakening to the nature of life and yearly renewable capacity of land to give birth. To this day the custom points of from holy water on Monday morning field by hosts is found in the villages of the southern Polish. Easter Monday tradition in villages was (and is still used today in some regions of the southern Polish) doing naughty neighbors. Exchanged into the gate, was placed on the roofs of farm tools, water buckets buried. Preserved in the custom wheel Pietrowice Great Raciborza and Ostropie (district of Gliwice), as well as Żędowicach (Opole Province) is the procession of riding, which also involved a priest. After the solemn Mass for the intention of good harvests procession tours the field that the priest paid. Śmigustne beggars, monsters playing on a tin horn appear at dawn on Easter Monday near Limanowa. Was once a popular habit of walking with cock after dyngusie; a wheelchair dyngusowym wożono rooster (sometimes replaced with the figure of a clay or dough), which was a symbol of fertility. However, in Krakow, to this day the road to Emmaus, indulgence by the monastery at Salwator Norbertine.
