Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday, called also summer or willow Sunday. It's been celebrated in Poland since the Middle Ages. It starts up the period of spiritual preparations for the holidays, which make people calm down, concentrate and remember Christ's pains.

Palms - willow, boxtree, rupsberry or currant twigs - we decorate them with flowers, herbs, colourful feathers.

After the palm is blessed, it's used to beat softly the householders so as to provide them with happiness for the whole year. Swallowing one of the pussies is said to bring health and wealth. Put behind a picture or into a vase, they protect the house from unluck and the neighboars' malice.

The size of the palms is considerably magic - the high ones provide the creator long and happy life. The more beautiful it is, the better life children will have.