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00:00:00["Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1"]
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00:07:30I fed myself, I built lives, people, animals, landscapes.
00:07:38I said, this is a table.
00:07:40This is a table.
00:07:43There is bread on the table, a knife.
00:07:47The knife is used to cut the bread.
00:07:49People feed themselves with bread.
00:07:54A man must be loved.
00:07:57I learned at night and during the day.
00:08:00What must be loved?
00:08:03I answered a man.
00:08:06This is a window, I said.
00:08:08This is a window.
00:08:11There is a garden behind the window.
00:08:15I see an apple tree in the garden.
00:08:18The apple tree blooms,
00:08:21flowers fall,
00:08:22fruits bind,
00:08:24they ripen.
00:08:28My father is picking an apple.
00:08:31The man who is picking an apple
00:08:35is my father.
00:08:40I was sitting on the threshold of the house.
00:08:43The old woman
00:08:46who is pulling a goat on the threshold
00:08:50is more necessary and more valuable
00:08:54than seven wonders of the world.
00:08:58Whoever thinks and feels that it is unnecessary
00:09:03is a genocide.
00:09:08This is a man.
00:09:11This is a tree.
00:09:14This is bread.
00:09:17People feed themselves to live.
00:09:22I repeated to myself.
00:09:25Human life is important.
00:09:28Human life has great value.
00:09:30The value of life
00:09:32is greater than all the objects
00:09:34that man has created.
00:09:37Man is a great treasure.
00:09:42I repeated stubbornly.
00:09:45This is water, I said.
00:09:48I stroked the wave with my hand
00:09:51and talked to the river.
00:09:53I said water.
00:09:55Good water.
00:09:59This is me.
00:10:03Man spoke to water,
00:10:06spoke to the moon,
00:10:09to flowers, to rain,
00:10:11spoke to the earth, to birds, to the sky.
00:10:17The sky was silent.
00:10:22The earth was silent.
00:10:27If he heard the voice
00:10:30that flowed from the earth, water and sky,
00:10:36it was the voice of another man.
00:10:42After the end of the world, after death,
00:10:46I found myself
00:10:49in the middle of life.
00:10:58My dear son,
00:11:02I was fine.
00:11:06I was happy.
00:11:08I was happy.
00:11:14It was hard, hard.
00:11:21My dear, I haven't looked at myself for so long.
00:11:26But maybe God will let me
00:11:28be happy with you later.
00:11:33But later.
00:11:38When will it happen?
00:11:43There were bright and happy days
00:11:45when I worked for you and by your side.
00:11:48Please, good God.
00:12:08I love you.
00:12:11I love you.
00:12:39My dear,
00:12:43would you like me
00:12:46to tell you about the house
00:12:48and various things?
00:13:09Szynkielew is a village
00:13:12that belonged to the Kaliska Governorate
00:13:14of the Wieluński Poviat,
00:13:16the times of the Tsar.
00:13:19There are two courtyards in the village,
00:13:21noble and general.
00:13:23The village itself is large
00:13:25and although it is not as poor
00:13:27as the surrounding villages,
00:13:29there is much less poverty.
00:13:31In winter, when there is no frost,
00:13:33the rags literally die in the mud,
00:13:35because the leg when pulled out of the mud
00:13:37would be on a rotten floor.
00:13:40Few people have shoes.
00:13:42It's a luxury.
00:13:44Those who have them,
00:13:46wear them only for big events.
00:13:48There is no school.
00:13:51It's 9 kilometers to the church.
00:13:54I came to Szynkielew when I was 5.
00:13:57I liked it very much.
00:14:00When I was 5,
00:14:02I didn't understand
00:14:04how much beauty of nature
00:14:06was hidden among the people,
00:14:08even in such a wealthy village.
00:14:11Around the 10th year of my life,
00:14:13I began to observe
00:14:15the beauty of nature.
00:14:18I was very interested
00:14:20in nature.
00:14:22When I was 5,
00:14:24I began to observe
00:14:26the life of the people.
00:14:28I remember the year
00:14:301905 the most.
00:14:34People were coming from the city.
00:14:36They said that maybe
00:14:38the tsar would no longer be there.
00:14:40In Łódź, they dressed a doll
00:14:42similar to the tsar.
00:14:44They carried it around
00:14:46to humiliate him.
00:14:48I heard again that in Russia
00:14:50the tsar would no longer be there.
00:14:52So there was a hope
00:14:54that the tsar would no longer be there
00:14:56and that they would stop
00:14:58bringing people to Siberia.
00:15:00The village was terribly neglected.
00:15:02The state did not care
00:15:04to improve the lives of the people.
00:15:06The best proof was that
00:15:08one small school
00:15:10was enough
00:15:12for several surrounding villages.
00:15:14So the children hardly
00:15:16went to school at all.
00:15:18There was a lot of discrimination
00:15:20among the children.
00:15:22One had to play with the other.
00:15:24I saw how 4-year-olds
00:15:26and 3-year-olds
00:15:28had to play and feed
00:15:30their mother
00:15:32who was younger and older.
00:15:34There was a lot of mortality
00:15:36among the children.
00:15:38I remember that one day
00:15:40I went to a wealthy family.
00:15:42The mother was in the field
00:15:44and the child lay alone
00:15:46and probably the straw was covered
00:15:48with some rag,
00:15:50but the child had already
00:15:52buried the rag with his feet.
00:15:54It was a sad sight.
00:15:56The child had eaten
00:15:58chaos under him.
00:16:00The hygiene was terrible.
00:16:02The children had to sleep
00:16:04without washing.
00:16:06They were tired.
00:16:08After 5-6 years old,
00:16:10they had to graze the geese.
00:16:12The children did not get enough sleep.
00:16:14At 4-5 a.m. the shepherd
00:16:16fell asleep on the border
00:16:18and the cattle went wherever they wanted.
00:16:20I felt so sorry for the children
00:16:22whose cows or geese
00:16:24had left the field.
00:16:26The shepherd was afraid
00:16:28that the cattle would hurt him.
00:16:30But the bodies of the cattle
00:16:32were chasing and not coming down.
00:16:34They were beaten at home
00:16:36for bad maintenance.
00:16:38It was a great celebration
00:16:40when the child got a piece of bread
00:16:42and a piece of candy
00:16:44of the worst kind.
00:16:46A little bit of starch paint
00:16:48instead of sugar.
00:16:52At dawn,
00:16:54he drew
00:16:56the earthy face of his mother
00:16:58with coal.
00:17:00He set the house on fire
00:17:02under the sheet metal.
00:17:08A crack.
00:17:10A crack.
00:17:14The smell of the embers.
00:17:18The flame
00:17:20spreads
00:17:22and hums.
00:17:28I see the sky in the window.
00:17:30The sun in the sky.
00:17:34Your faces
00:17:36are all around.
00:17:40Their faces
00:17:42won't be repeated anymore.
00:17:48Wake up at least tomorrow afternoon
00:17:50so that I could
00:17:52look at you.
00:17:54My beloved son.
00:18:00It's so hard
00:18:02to part with the faces.
00:18:06A man would like
00:18:08to look and look.
00:18:10I've seen how people live.
00:18:14Someone who hasn't seen it
00:18:16can't imagine it.
00:18:18I was in a room like that.
00:18:20There was no floor,
00:18:22just a wooden floor.
00:18:24One room with a whole family
00:18:26and rabbits.
00:18:28So that there was meat for Christmas.
00:18:30One small window with nails
00:18:32that didn't open at all.
00:18:34Rich people had other windows
00:18:36covered with straw.
00:18:38But it was for the rich.
00:18:40The poor couldn't even
00:18:42stand on their horses to work.
00:18:44The furniture was very poor
00:18:46in the apartments.
00:18:48The furniture mostly consisted
00:18:50of a chest, a so-called trunk,
00:18:52in which there were clothes
00:18:54and underwear.
00:18:56There were no engines.
00:18:58You could say that people slept
00:19:00on bare straw.
00:19:02There were sheets thrown on the straw,
00:19:04there were almost no dishes
00:19:06in the kitchen.
00:19:08Two or three pots called irons.
00:19:10Some of the hosts didn't have plates,
00:19:12but they kept them in the closet from the parade.
00:19:14I've never seen a copper dishwasher.
00:19:16Yes, there was a sieve
00:19:18in which the dishes were washed.
00:19:20Cows were fed from the same sieve.
00:19:22And in the morning
00:19:24children got up from their beds
00:19:26and peed
00:19:28in the same sieve.
00:19:34There was no poop,
00:19:36only urine.
00:19:42Eat, eat, eat,
00:19:44food, food,
00:19:46food.
00:19:50Breakfast!
00:19:54Breakfast!
00:19:56Breakfast!
00:19:58Breakfast!
00:20:00Breakfast!
00:20:02Breakfast!
00:20:04Breakfast was usually
00:20:06made of potatoes
00:20:08and soup.
00:20:10The soup was cooked in different ways.
00:20:12For the poor,
00:20:14water was filled with wheat flour
00:20:16and sorghum milk,
00:20:18and for the rich,
00:20:20it was filled with sweet milk.
00:20:22And instead of water,
00:20:24butter was taken.
00:20:26Potatoes were cooked in whole pots.
00:20:28Lunch was made
00:20:30of potatoes, cabbages
00:20:32and dumplings.
00:20:34Dumplings were varied.
00:20:36Some ate dumplings
00:20:38with milk,
00:20:40and others ate dumplings
00:20:42with butter.
00:20:44Cabbage was pickled in whole heads.
00:20:46Leaves were chopped with choppers
00:20:48and heads were sprinkled with them.
00:20:50Cabbage for the poor
00:20:52was decorated with oil
00:20:54or cooked beans.
00:20:56The rest of the food
00:20:58was made of millet
00:21:00or barley.
00:21:02Millet was cooked on the stove.
00:21:04People ate very little meat.
00:21:08When a cow broke its leg
00:21:10or something else happened,
00:21:12the peasants sold it to each other.
00:21:14But the butcher
00:21:16often came and bought
00:21:18money for the dog.
00:21:20There were good times
00:21:22when wheat was born.
00:21:24At that time,
00:21:26bread was baked
00:21:28every Sunday from white flour.
00:21:30But when there was no birth,
00:21:32women washed
00:21:34wheat in pots
00:21:36only for borscht
00:21:38and various fillings.
00:21:40They almost didn't eat sugar at all.
00:21:42They bought it for the sick
00:21:44and for Christmas.
00:21:46Peasants didn't plant it long ago.
00:21:48It was bad with fruits too.
00:21:50I remember
00:21:52that peaches
00:21:54grew so densely
00:21:56on the borders
00:21:58that from a distance
00:22:00they looked like a forest.
00:22:04There were a lot
00:22:06of wild fruits.
00:22:10There were two orchards
00:22:12with fruit trees in the village.
00:22:14They belonged to the yard.
00:22:16Children didn't use
00:22:18these fruits at all.
00:22:20I remember
00:22:22a couple of small gardens
00:22:24in a rich farmer's house.
00:22:28A green garden.
00:22:32A bird was singing.
00:22:40I would eat a little bit
00:22:42for a snack.
00:22:46From tomorrow on,
00:22:48I'll go to the park in the morning.
00:22:50Everything is so dense here
00:22:52that I don't feel hungry at all.
00:22:54I'll die of hunger.
00:22:58Did you really eat?
00:23:02I knew a few boys.
00:23:06They could learn,
00:23:08but they had to go to Germany
00:23:10for work.
00:23:12Two of my generation
00:23:14wanted to go
00:23:16for something, as they say.
00:23:18So one of them,
00:23:20Andrzej Kałużny,
00:23:22went to Germany a few times
00:23:24to earn money for clothes and education.
00:23:26Then he ran 9 kilometers
00:23:28to the priest who helped him
00:23:30prepare for some class,
00:23:32I don't remember if it was 3rd or 4th.
00:23:34Finally, he went
00:23:36to a seminar.
00:23:38He came back
00:23:40exhausted.
00:23:42People told me
00:23:44that when he was going to have his primacy,
00:23:46they had to take him
00:23:48to the altar.
00:23:50He couldn't go to the Holy Mass
00:23:52on his own.
00:23:56He died soon after.
00:24:00The second boy,
00:24:02Antoni Balasik,
00:24:06had to be
00:24:08empowered,
00:24:10but he wasn't.
00:24:12I saw him
00:24:14carving pine bark
00:24:16for various holidays.
00:24:18It was really nice.
00:24:20He was a self-taught.
00:24:22His parents
00:24:24didn't give him a tablet or a pen.
00:24:26He really wanted to write.
00:24:28So he wrote with coal,
00:24:30sticks on the ground.
00:24:32When he was older,
00:24:34he went to Germany and learned to write there.
00:24:36He wrote letters
00:24:38to people
00:24:40he worked with.
00:24:46Not many people in the village
00:24:48could write.
00:24:50Most were illiterate.
00:24:52I have to describe Balasik,
00:24:54because since he was self-taught,
00:24:56he stopped going to Germany after a few years.
00:24:58Secretary Świeżczak
00:25:00took him as an assistant
00:25:02to the court.
00:25:04It was a practice.
00:25:06And even though he was self-taught,
00:25:08he did a great job.
00:25:10He had a beautiful character.
00:25:12He was extremely hard-working.
00:25:16After the practice,
00:25:18he went
00:25:20to Kalisz as an office worker.
00:25:24I'm telling you about these two friends
00:25:26so that you can
00:25:28understand the conditions
00:25:30in which people lived
00:25:32who could be useful for the culture and the state.
00:25:37I still have to
00:25:39think about the village
00:25:41where I grew up.
00:25:43If there was a man in the village
00:25:45who could write,
00:25:47even write badly,
00:25:49he was a scholar,
00:25:51he collected children in the winter
00:25:53and taught them.
00:25:55He got almost pennies for it,
00:25:57or something like that.
00:25:59But what the children learned in the winter
00:26:01they forgot in the summer,
00:26:03because the man who taught
00:26:05them
00:26:07didn't really
00:26:09want these schools.
00:26:13My father often said,
00:26:15the school is very much
00:26:17needed for your children.
00:26:23They replied with a laugh,
00:26:26Sir,
00:26:28whoever knows himself in writing
00:26:31will go to hell.
00:26:33I don't believe it.
00:26:36I don't believe
00:26:38from waking up to falling asleep.
00:26:40I don't believe
00:26:42from shore to shore of my life.
00:26:45I don't believe so openly,
00:26:47so deeply,
00:26:49as my mother believed so deeply.
00:26:52I don't believe
00:26:54eating bread,
00:26:57drinking water,
00:26:59loving the body.
00:27:01I don't believe
00:27:03in his temples,
00:27:05priests,
00:27:07signs.
00:27:09I don't believe
00:27:11in the streets of the city,
00:27:13in the field, in the rain, in the air,
00:27:16in the gold of the revelations.
00:27:20I read his parables,
00:27:23simple as the sound of wheat,
00:27:27and I think of God.
00:27:31Who didn't laugh
00:27:34at the little God,
00:27:36who was bleeding
00:27:38from the white lips of childhood.
00:27:44About the blackness
00:27:46that tears
00:27:48our eyes, our lips.
00:27:55Now,
00:27:57in the hour of death,
00:28:02and the village
00:28:04was deeply religious.
00:28:09Even the priests
00:28:11considered it a holy place.
00:28:14The poor people,
00:28:16who often refused a piece of bread,
00:28:18found rubles
00:28:20to pay for the church.
00:28:22Although the church was
00:28:24nine kilometers away from our village,
00:28:26they went there every Sunday.
00:28:28In the winter, when there were frosts,
00:28:30they got up at 4 a.m.
00:28:32to make it to Rorata.
00:28:34They were very careful about fasting.
00:28:37There was a big fast
00:28:39before Easter,
00:28:41Advent before Christmas.
00:28:43Even if they wanted to eat
00:28:45a piece of meat on Sunday,
00:28:47they went to the priest
00:28:49for a dispensation.
00:28:51The dispensation cost rubles.
00:28:53They literally ate
00:28:55the whole big fast.
00:28:57They cooked it on dried beets,
00:28:59or in crushed oil.
00:29:02They belonged to various
00:29:04religious associations,
00:29:06for example,
00:29:08to the Rosary Brotherhood.
00:29:10The Rosary Brotherhood
00:29:12guaranteed that after death,
00:29:14even if no one would buy a mass,
00:29:16there would always be a mass
00:29:18for those from the Brotherhood,
00:29:20and a lot of light would shine
00:29:22at the funeral.
00:29:24There were a lot of associations,
00:29:26for example,
00:29:28and every Sunday
00:29:30they would meet with another woman
00:29:32from the Rosary Brotherhood
00:29:34and pray for him.
00:29:36They would say that he was alive,
00:29:38because they kept praying for him.
00:29:42The child had to be baptized
00:29:44as late as two weeks.
00:29:46They were afraid
00:29:48that such a baby would not die without a baptism,
00:29:50because otherwise he would be condemned
00:29:52like a Jew or another unbaptized person.
00:29:54Besides, after giving birth,
00:29:56the child had to go to church
00:29:58to be cleansed.
00:30:00It was not allowed for such a woman
00:30:02to go for water before that,
00:30:04because then there were worms in the water.
00:30:06They went to confession quite often,
00:30:08and the confession that everyone
00:30:10had to do under the control of the parish priest
00:30:12was Easter.
00:30:14The whole Holy Week
00:30:16was sad and solemn.
00:30:18The parents went to bitter grief,
00:30:20they told how the Jews tortured the Lord Jesus,
00:30:22the earth cracked,
00:30:24lightning bolts.
00:30:26During the confession,
00:30:28all people with great respect
00:30:30took off their hats.
00:30:32Traditional rites were held,
00:30:34planting of houses,
00:30:36great washing.
00:30:38Then there was baking bread,
00:30:40and what was richer,
00:30:42pancakes were baked.
00:30:44Well, you had to show up with a baptism.
00:30:46The priest came to baptize on Holy Saturday.
00:30:48Women and children,
00:30:50in their holy clothes,
00:30:52covered with sand.
00:30:54The baptism consisted of
00:30:56bread, cheese and asparagus.
00:30:58Asparagus was meat cooked with bacon,
00:31:00dressed with lard.
00:31:02Of course, there had to be vinegar
00:31:04and horseradish,
00:31:06because the Jews ate the Lord Jesus with it.
00:31:08Almost all adults
00:31:10went to the resurrection,
00:31:12and Holy Sunday was celebrated
00:31:14very solemnly.
00:31:16The second day of the holidays
00:31:18was Smigus.
00:31:20The parishioners poured girls
00:31:22with large jugs,
00:31:24which were used to extinguish the fire,
00:31:26and some girls
00:31:28were thrown into the ditch.
00:31:34Is this egoism?
00:31:40No?
00:31:42Can you love like this?
00:31:44Can you love like this?
00:31:48Let him suffer terribly,
00:31:50but let him breathe.
00:31:52Let him have open eyes,
00:31:54let him look, let him speak.
00:31:58A little more warmth
00:32:00in this poor,
00:32:02barren,
00:32:04maltreated
00:32:06human body.
00:32:10Poor.
00:32:12My poorest child.
00:32:18God's birthday.
00:32:20It was a real
00:32:22holiday.
00:32:24People also celebrated it
00:32:26with great worship.
00:32:28There were many dishes on the Christmas table.
00:32:30The hemp seed had to be rubbed.
00:32:32Boiled with milk
00:32:34was the Christmas soup.
00:32:36There were also dumplings
00:32:38with honey, dried dumplings,
00:32:40many other dishes.
00:32:42The Christmas dinner consisted of 13,
00:32:4411 or 7 dishes.
00:32:46After dividing with a cloth,
00:32:48the host took a pink cloth,
00:32:50specially baked by the organist,
00:32:52and could give to the widow.
00:32:54Because the boys said
00:32:56that the widow also had to be given,
00:32:58because Jesus came to the world
00:33:00between the widow.
00:33:02They also said in the village
00:33:04that on that night
00:33:06the widow spoke human language.
00:33:08And to this day
00:33:10on that night she speaks.
00:33:12In the corner
00:33:14there was a haystack.
00:33:16The whole room was covered with hay
00:33:18as a souvenir that Jesus was born
00:33:20in a stable.
00:33:22And on the second day of Christmas,
00:33:24St. Stephen,
00:33:26the hosts usually changed
00:33:28the shepherds and the shepherdesses.
00:33:30Hence the proverb
00:33:32For St. Stephen
00:33:34every servant is a lord.
00:33:36The carnival began.
00:33:40If he had
00:33:42a pretty girl somewhere,
00:33:44he took the widow's vodka.
00:33:46They went to the haystack.
00:33:48When they made up,
00:33:50I mean, when the parents of the young lady
00:33:52gave as much as the boy
00:33:54wanted for the mink.
00:33:56And if he had mink,
00:33:58he took money from the payment
00:34:00and cows.
00:34:02They drank the vodka
00:34:04and if they didn't agree,
00:34:06then one evening
00:34:08the boy and the old woman
00:34:10were looking for another girl
00:34:12and they finally agreed.
00:34:14Then they went to St. Stephen.
00:34:16They brought a notice.
00:34:18St. Stephen asked the mink.
00:34:20Most often such a couple
00:34:22didn't know the mink.
00:34:24So the priest didn't announce the notice
00:34:26until they learned the mink.
00:34:28But he also made up
00:34:30what else you can do
00:34:32in the world.
00:34:34The priest was right.
00:34:36At the wedding,
00:34:38almost everyone was there.
00:34:40They were all dressed up.
00:34:42Everyone had a ribbon over their shoulders.
00:34:44They had flowers attached to their hats,
00:34:46usually red flowers.
00:34:48They were making wreaths out of wood.
00:34:50I don't know what kind.
00:34:52Maybe from a tree,
00:34:54because they were naked.
00:34:56Then there were places on the wreaths
00:34:58with a scraped knife and painted.
00:35:00They were making wreaths out of colorful wreaths.
00:35:02And on the back of their heads,
00:35:04there were different ribbons
00:35:06attached to their heads,
00:35:08long enough to reach the ground.
00:35:10God, how beautiful it looked!
00:35:12The young lady was wearing
00:35:14a different dress on her head
00:35:16or a very shabby veil.
00:35:18A veil with a wreath
00:35:20could only go to the bride.
00:35:22When the priest found out
00:35:24that the young lady was pregnant
00:35:26or that she already had a child,
00:35:28he would hit the wreath with his head
00:35:30and say that she was no longer a virgin
00:35:32and that it was unworthy of her to get married.
00:35:34It was a fear for others
00:35:36to watch over the wreath
00:35:38and a shame.
00:35:40To the weddings of the richer
00:35:42there were often
00:35:44twenty wagons.
00:35:46Horses were dressed in different flowers
00:35:48made of feathers.
00:35:50Before going to the wedding,
00:35:52the young couple thanked their parents
00:35:54for raising them.
00:35:56If you want to read, you should read
00:35:58about the Małżeńskie herd,
00:36:00about the original sin,
00:36:02about Adam and Eve,
00:36:04as the first parents
00:36:06who were united by God himself
00:36:08at the beginning of the world.
00:36:10Before going to the wedding,
00:36:12the young couple kneeled
00:36:14and asked their parents
00:36:16for a blessing.
00:36:18They went to the wedding
00:36:20singing hymns and prayers.
00:36:22They even shot fireworks.
00:36:24Shall we go?
00:36:50When I close my eyes
00:36:54I hear
00:36:58the voice of a bird,
00:37:02the creak of pines,
00:37:06the shallow silence of the forest
00:37:10and our sad laughter.
00:37:12I see the forest
00:37:14where I collected berries with you.
00:37:18At that time,
00:37:20the body was mobile
00:37:22and young as water.
00:37:40We were returning home
00:37:44with black lips,
00:37:46bare legs like wings
00:37:52shining in the dust.
00:38:02I can see the house
00:38:06smoke
00:38:10in the sky,
00:38:12crawling patiently
00:38:14and my mother
00:38:16in the window
00:38:20with her hand over her eyes.
00:38:26The young lady,
00:38:28saying goodbye to her parents,
00:38:30was mostly crying.
00:38:32She also said goodbye
00:38:34to her thresholds
00:38:36saying
00:38:39goodbye to my path,
00:38:41goodbye to my thresholds.
00:38:45My legs used to walk here,
00:38:47they won't anymore.
00:38:49And so on.
00:38:52After the wedding,
00:38:54the whole wedding
00:38:56went to the inn.
00:38:58They ate and drank there.
00:39:00And when they were fed up,
00:39:02everyone, drunk,
00:39:04went to the wedding house.
00:39:06Music was playing,
00:39:08but it often ended up
00:39:10with the wagons turning over.
00:39:12After the wedding,
00:39:14they brought in a young couple
00:39:16with the bride and groom.
00:39:18Then there was a dinner,
00:39:20which was a feast.
00:39:22At the feast,
00:39:24the young man took off
00:39:26the headscarf of the young lady,
00:39:28who was drunk in such a mysterious way
00:39:30that it was difficult to untie him.
00:39:32It was like untying
00:39:34a knot.
00:39:36They drank vodka.
00:39:38The drunks were singing sad songs
00:39:40that there would be no bride in a moment,
00:39:42and the old woman
00:39:44was singing songs
00:39:46collecting money for the headscarf.
00:39:48Give her a kiss
00:39:50so that she
00:39:52has beautiful daughters.
00:39:54Give her a kiss
00:39:56so that she
00:39:58has beautiful daughters.
00:40:00Give her a kiss
00:40:02so that she
00:40:04has beautiful daughters.
00:40:06And the old man answered her,
00:40:08Give her a kiss
00:40:10so that she
00:40:12has beautiful sons.
00:40:14Give her a kiss
00:40:16so that she
00:40:18has everything.
00:40:20Give her a kiss
00:40:22so that she
00:40:24has everything.
00:40:32The young lady
00:40:34was sitting on the roof
00:40:36during the feast.
00:40:38After being taken off
00:40:40by the young man,
00:40:42the old woman put
00:40:44the headscarf on her head,
00:40:46which she had taken off,
00:40:48and put it on her knees,
00:40:50because other men had not put
00:40:52the headscarf on her head yet,
00:40:54the mother of the young lady
00:40:56and her husband.
00:40:58Our headscarves were very beautiful,
00:41:00large in size,
00:41:02they had
00:41:04various ribbons attached to them.
00:41:06The women put
00:41:08beautiful silk scarves on their heads.
00:41:12On the second day,
00:41:14the wedding took place
00:41:16at the parents of the young man.
00:41:18On the third day,
00:41:20they played with the elders,
00:41:22and then the guests
00:41:24made a side wedding.
00:41:26The men made vodka,
00:41:28and again they ate, drank,
00:41:30danced, played, sang,
00:41:32until Sunday.
00:41:34Our weddings took place
00:41:36on Tuesdays.
00:41:40On Sunday,
00:41:42the young lady went to church
00:41:44for the blessing.
00:41:46The priest blessed
00:41:48the young lady
00:41:50for her mother.
00:41:58I live.
00:42:00I can only swallow
00:42:02the liquid.
00:42:06All the saints in the village
00:42:08also celebrate
00:42:10the great cult.
00:42:12For about two weeks
00:42:14before all the saints
00:42:16they give the so-called
00:42:18commemorations.
00:42:20These are prayers
00:42:22for the dead,
00:42:24for the living,
00:42:26for the dead.
00:42:28The priest for a few weeks
00:42:30after the sermon
00:42:32prays with people for the soul.
00:42:34He takes money
00:42:36for each soul.
00:42:38The people put the graves
00:42:40with different twigs,
00:42:42sprinkled with yellow sand.
00:42:44After coming from the procession
00:42:46in the evening,
00:42:48no one went out,
00:42:50not even to the neighbors,
00:42:52not even to their own yard.
00:42:54They shouldn't be disturbed.
00:42:56I once asked why.
00:42:58A friend told me
00:43:00that they were so curious.
00:43:02Their souls showed up.
00:43:04She told me that one boy
00:43:06wandered so much
00:43:08that he went to the mill that night.
00:43:10And here,
00:43:12if some wind doesn't break,
00:43:14and if it doesn't start to be sad,
00:43:16until the boy
00:43:18got goosebumps from fear,
00:43:20he looked at all the grain
00:43:22bags,
00:43:24not empty,
00:43:26tied up,
00:43:28there is no grain in them.
00:43:30His fear took him.
00:43:32He wants to run away,
00:43:34and the horses don't move.
00:43:36They stand like stones.
00:43:38And he ran away himself.
00:43:40Because, you see,
00:43:42there is a warning
00:43:44to pray for the soul
00:43:46at night,
00:43:48and not to disturb.
00:43:50Because they don't scare the soul at all.
00:43:52Only people, under the impression of stories,
00:43:54are afraid themselves.
00:43:56And she tells me what she thinks, too.
00:43:58It's all true.
00:44:00Once a boy went,
00:44:02and the horses won't stand here,
00:44:04or move.
00:44:06It's hard for them, they can't leave.
00:44:08The boy looks around,
00:44:10and there's something lying on the cart.
00:44:12And it's big, and it's bulky,
00:44:14and the fear took him so much
00:44:16that he barely got home,
00:44:18and he got sick.
00:44:20He didn't say anything for two days.
00:44:22Only when they asked him where the horses were,
00:44:24he said,
00:44:26I don't know,
00:44:28maybe their souls took them,
00:44:30and they left.
00:44:32Although I feel sorry for the horses,
00:44:34it will be a warning for others
00:44:36not to disturb the souls.
00:44:40I don't want to lie here.
00:44:44It hurts.
00:44:46I want
00:44:48air.
00:44:52Or in Częstochowa.
00:44:54It burns.
00:44:56In Częstochowa.
00:45:00Water.
00:45:08They told me that when the mother dies,
00:45:10and leaves the orphans,
00:45:12she always comes at night
00:45:14and feeds the youngest with her breast.
00:45:18I say, but the dead have no food.
00:45:20And she says
00:45:22that some old woman saw her daughter
00:45:24coming at night,
00:45:26kneeling by the cradle,
00:45:28and feeding her child.
00:45:30And that old woman claimed
00:45:32that some noise was made
00:45:34when she went back to heaven.
00:45:36Even the doors didn't open.
00:45:40I liked it very much
00:45:42when they told me about different fears
00:45:44and times.
00:45:46If only I had thought then
00:45:48that one day I would tell
00:45:50what darkness people lived in.
00:45:52They believed in magic very much.
00:45:54They told me that
00:45:56if a shepherd wants something,
00:45:58he will give it to everyone.
00:46:00Women believed in magic.
00:46:02When a woman went
00:46:04after the sunset for milk,
00:46:06she didn't get it.
00:46:08And even if she did,
00:46:10otherwise she could have taken
00:46:12the cow's milk.
00:46:14People believed in driving out the devil.
00:46:18Apparently, there was a priest in Brzyków
00:46:20who had the power to drive out the devil.
00:46:22One old woman told me
00:46:24that she was in the church
00:46:26when the priest was driving out the devil.
00:46:28They brought such a woman
00:46:30to the church,
00:46:32and when the devil realized
00:46:34that they wanted to drive him out,
00:46:36he wouldn't let the woman
00:46:38until her foam came out of her mouth.
00:46:40But when the priest
00:46:42began to sanctify the woman,
00:46:44to pray over her,
00:46:46it was only then that the devil
00:46:48began to do terrible things.
00:46:50And the priest sanctified her.
00:46:54And when the woman wouldn't come out,
00:46:58then fire and smoke
00:47:00came out of her mouth.
00:47:02Then the devil came out.
00:47:04How was one supposed to die?
00:47:06There were always curfews.
00:47:08And the image was falling down.
00:47:10And something was going on
00:47:12and everyone was shivering.
00:47:14And then...
00:47:18something was showing up.
00:47:26I'm an adult.
00:47:28I know I have to die.
00:47:30This is how I want to live.
00:47:34Just a little bit more.
00:47:40People were being healed with different ointments.
00:47:44They believed in superstitions.
00:47:46Such a superstition
00:47:48was usually cured with a curse.
00:47:50But the devil
00:47:52didn't believe in such a thing.
00:47:54He didn't believe in such a thing.
00:47:56He didn't believe in such a thing.
00:47:58I am a sick person.
00:48:00I usually heal with a curse.
00:48:02He would spread herbs on my neck,
00:48:04care for the sick around me,
00:48:06refusing any treatment,
00:48:08and cursing.
00:48:10It was supposed to be the best cure
00:48:12for all diseases.
00:48:14The doctors were afraid.
00:48:16They said,
00:48:18no need for a doctor.
00:48:20Doctors won't help to kill the sick.
00:48:22It's better to call a priest.
00:48:24The priest will often be better off.
00:48:29Women were afraid like rabbits.
00:48:32There were women in the village who had no practice.
00:48:37Such a woman, not only dirty, but also without a heart,
00:48:39saying that you have to save the child more than the mother.
00:48:45Because if the child dies without baptism,
00:48:50it will be condemned.
00:48:54And the mother is already baptized.
00:48:57One priest told me
00:49:00that he was called to the sick with Lord Jesus.
00:49:03He was terrified of what he saw.
00:49:06A hut full of women, the sick almost dead.
00:49:09And the woman burns the crematorium.
00:49:12The priest asks, what do you want to do with this hook?
00:49:15And the woman says that the child can not be born,
00:49:17because it will stand in the clutches.
00:49:19So I ask the priest for this hook.
00:49:21I want to hit the ear and pull it out
00:49:23so that it does not remain in the mother after death.
00:49:26And you can baptize with water.
00:49:28The priest called the boy,
00:49:30told him to go to Wielunia to see Dr. Domagalski,
00:49:33who also saved the woman.
00:49:35Women were organically strong.
00:49:38I remember one woman,
00:49:39when she was grazing oats,
00:49:40she gave birth to a child in the field.
00:49:44And she went home alone.
00:49:45I do not know how she did it,
00:49:46because it was very far away.
00:49:48And after a few hours, she gave birth to a second one.
00:49:50She even said,
00:49:51you do not have to go to bed.
00:50:50And I look out the window at the rose flowers,
00:51:12the cats are peeing in the yard.
00:51:14And my old mother
00:51:16I draw yellow water with the holy hand.
00:51:22In the window stands her young,
00:51:25badly smiling.
00:51:33Now it's prettier, isn't it?
00:51:38Don't touch anyone.
00:51:40Don't touch.
00:51:43This is a vase.
00:51:45My father was angry when I bought it,
00:51:48but now it's prettier in the room.
00:51:52No, it's not for flowers.
00:51:55It's nothing.
00:51:58It's pretty on its own.
00:52:00It has such a beautiful shape
00:52:02that it's a decoration on its own.
00:52:05But please, don't touch it.
00:52:08You don't have to touch beautiful things.
00:52:24I felt bad all day.
00:52:28In the evening I went to the rosary.
00:52:32Returning from church, I felt pain
00:52:36that didn't let me get home.
00:52:41Then I felt fear
00:52:44that I could give birth to my child on the street.
00:52:49I stood leaning against the wall
00:52:51when an unknown lady met me and brought me home.
00:52:57After two hours, at nine,
00:53:02you were born.
00:53:06I was a little disappointed.
00:53:10I really wanted a daughter.
00:53:15You were born healthy, chubby.
00:53:19You had long, black curls to the middle of your neck.
00:53:24You were extremely calm.
00:53:28My father was such a good man.
00:53:31He was so calm.
00:53:34My father was so proud to have a second son.
00:53:39We gave you a name on the cross, Tadeusz.
00:53:45My little son was dressed in white.
00:53:49When it was fashionable, he wore a silk crown.
00:53:52Everyone was delighted.
00:53:56At the feast on the cross,
00:53:58people talked about the hero of the day,
00:54:02that he didn't cry like other children.
00:54:06He didn't even frown when the priest put salt in his mouth.
00:54:12Others said,
00:54:13he's so pink, so chubby,
00:54:15maybe he'll become a priest.
00:54:19It's a pity he doesn't have a name, Franek.
00:54:22When you were to be born,
00:54:25I couldn't buy a haystack.
00:54:29I sewed a haystack
00:54:31from a keratin curtain into flowers.
00:54:37That's how my son
00:54:40was born, in flowers.
00:54:42You were healthy, you were growing well.
00:54:46When you were six months old,
00:54:48you got your first tooth.
00:54:50There was great joy at home.
00:54:53I breastfed you for ten months.
00:54:56In the eighth month, in May,
00:54:58I told you to vaccinate your spleen.
00:55:02You didn't want to vaccinate your spleen.
00:55:06You didn't want to vaccinate your spleen.
00:55:09I didn't want to vaccinate my spleen.
00:55:13I was happy that day.
00:55:17Because the doctor
00:55:19took my son in his arms
00:55:22and said,
00:55:25look, women,
00:55:28that's how healthy and clean
00:55:30every child should look.
00:55:40The first word you said
00:55:44was Mama.
00:55:48God's angel, my guardian,
00:55:50you are always by my side,
00:55:52morning, evening, day, night.
00:55:54Always help me.
00:55:57God's angel, my guardian,
00:55:59you are always by my side,
00:56:01morning, evening, day, night.
00:56:03Always help me.
00:56:06She turned her face to the wall.
00:56:08But she loves me.
00:56:10Why did she turn away from me?
00:56:14So,
00:56:15with such a movement of the head,
00:56:17you can turn away from the world
00:56:20where the crows are chirping
00:56:24and young people are walking
00:56:26in screaming ties.
00:56:29She is alone now
00:56:32in the face of the dead wall
00:56:35and she will stay that way.
00:56:39She will stay under the wall,
00:56:42huge,
00:56:44twisted and small,
00:56:46with a clenched fist.
00:56:49And I sit
00:56:52with my stone legs
00:56:54and I don't pull them out of this place.
00:56:57I don't carry them
00:56:59lighter than
00:57:00a breath.
00:57:02Once I saw in the forest
00:57:04how an old deer came out of the trees
00:57:08and looked like this.
00:57:10Then she came back,
00:57:12took her children,
00:57:13two deer,
00:57:15through the meadows.
00:57:25What worries you, son?
00:57:28Nothing.
00:57:30Tell me what bothers you.
00:57:34I entered the world of poetry
00:57:36like in the light.
00:57:39And now
00:57:41I'm getting ready to go out into the darkness.
00:57:45You know, mum,
00:57:47I can only tell you this
00:57:49for the old age.
00:57:51I can tell you this
00:57:52because I'm older than you.
00:57:56I didn't dare tell you this for the rest of my life.
00:58:00I'm a poet.
00:58:03I was afraid of this word.
00:58:06I never told my father about it.
00:58:09I didn't know
00:58:11if it was right to say something like that.
00:58:14I'm looking for alternative words
00:58:15to communicate
00:58:17this fact
00:58:18of the world,
00:58:20of my mother.
00:58:23Mum,
00:58:25I'm
00:58:27a poet.
00:58:28I'm a poet.
00:58:31I know, son.
00:58:34I've always known that.
00:58:38My poet,
00:58:41when you used to say to me,
00:58:42Mum,
00:58:43what do you need?
00:58:46All the evil left me
00:58:51and all the best
00:58:53was radiating from you to me.
00:58:58Praise me, dear mum.
00:59:28I'm a poet.
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