BBC website mentions Czech Easter spanking tradition

Sorry for that dudgeon, I know I exaggerated
My reaction was a mixture of Sunday morning skepticism and the fact, that I expected something else. Loud ha-ha-ha shows American style are not my cup of tea and make me somewhat grieve. Anyway, I am from Central Europe. (Do you know books of George Mikes?)

No problem. I don't know George Mikes work. I'll look into it!

Someone here needs to write a Pomlazka story...

Somewhere in my vast collection of girls' annuals from about 1900 to 1990 there was definitely an article about it - strange traditions from around the world. I quite like the idea of a story about a young journalist for the Girls' Own Paper, or some such, being sent off to Czechoslovakia to research the story in person.

Bohumil Hrabal is my favourite Czech author. I love Czech cinema and Czech humour which is a bit more surreal than ours as far as I can make out. Nothing wrong with being English or the English sense of humour. Not going to start flag waving about it though.

Hi KatiePie - both the article and the story idea sound great - especially if she was sent maybe just after the fall of the Stalinists, say Easter 1990 to somewhere very rural and upset everybody with her snooty attitudes so that when Easter Sunday came there's a long line of angry men, all with Pomlazkas, and a crowd of unsympathetic women!

I see that there's a fair few videos on YouTube teaching how to make a pomlazka. It could make an interesting craft project for those of us in lockdown - and of course we'd have to try them out!