O „polskim” zwyczaju całowania upadłej kruszyny chleba… – z powodu wiersza Cypriana K. Norwida Moja piosnka II

Abstrakt

The author aims to gain knowledge about the custom, its origin and about ourselves, Poles, in order to change the thinking and teaching about the subject of the article. Methods of research procedure: collection, description, interpretation of literary, ethnographic, dictionary material of the past and present: C.K. Norwid’s poem My Song II, a description of the custom by Z. Gloger, other ethnographic descriptions from the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, interviews of students, studies of the attitude of Poles to food. Is kissing a fallen crumb really a Polish custom? It was assimilated rightly from the work of Erasmus of Rotterdam On civility in children (De civilitate morum puerilium); has a literary origin, not a folk background. Today, few Poles practice this custom.