Kupała Night is celebration of the longest night of the year, which lasts for four days, with celebrations starting on the 20th of June (the Summer Solstice). The original name for the celebration was Kupala, and used to be a Pagan fertility rite. During Kupala Day, children often perform pranks and pour water over people in good humour, as the holiday is a celebration of both water and fire. Concerning the latter element, huge fires can be lit on mountaintops, with dancing and singing later happening around them. Leaping across these fires would ensure protection from negative energy. Girls can make wreaths from flowers and throw them into rivers for boys to later try to fish out; should they find the original owner, they would then become a couple. This night is now more commonly known as St. John's Night and is celebrated on the 24th of June after the Church made it part of the Christian calendar.

This festival used to be celebrated around the time of the autumn equinox during pre-Christian times, but is now celebrated on a Sunday after the harvest season. It used to be associated with the Pagan cult of plants and agriculture, but was adopted by more affluent peasants as a way of saying thank you to workers. Those celebrating the festival gather in fields and bring back sheafs which women then turn into wreaths to offer to the guest of honour (usually the festival organiser). The wreath is often brought back to the place of celebration by a procession and laid where the final celebrations take place. It is a symbol of a rich harvest, wealth and prosperity, and can take the shape of a sheaf of grain decorated with field flowers, or in modern times more commonly a circular, crown shaped wreath. The festival still survives in Poland to this day.

Meaning "the soul of ancestors" in old Slavic (1), and lasting from the 7th of January to the 19th of January, Svyatki consists of celebrations called the Holy Eves and Scary Eves. It is a popular practice for those participating to carry out divination regarding the forthcoming year, most commonly consisting of young women guessing who would be their future groom, but everyone was welcome to join in the activities. One of the methods consisted of girls going to crossroads, and listening out for a song or laughter. If it was heard, they would take it to mean their future family life would be happy, however if nothing was heard, the girl would be doomed to a life of sadness. One of the most used methods of divination was divination with shadows, where one would write their wish upon a piece of paper, burn it, and the shadows the flame cast on a wall would be used to interpret the future.

A pagan tradition with a Catholic name, Andrzejki takes place on the eve of the 29th of November, and consists of an evening of fortune telling. Each respective participant must be in the presence of those bearing the same gender as them, due to the nature of the fortune-telling being the predicting of one's husband or wife. However, it is common practice in modern times for families to do this together, regardless of gender, and predictions are meant to predict any events in the coming year. The most common and popular form of divination used is divination using wax. (1) A candle, or any form of wax is melted and poured through the hole in a key onto cold water. As the wax drips down and solidifies, one holds the wax in front of a wall whilst shining a light onto it. The shadow produced is used as a prophecy for the next year.

Before the commercialisation of Christmas in the 20th century, Polish homes would use straw and hay as decorations for the festive season. Straw was treated as a "magickal barrier" with protective properties, and often laid down onto the floor of a house. In modern times, those still practicing the tradition place it under the table cloth for Christmas Eve supper: Wigilia. Other decorations (1) include Podłaźniczki (a spherical decoration made from fir or spruce, often hanging from the cieling of a cottage), światy (spherical decorations constructed from thin wafers: opłatek, and water), Pająki (ornate constructions made from straw, yarn, paper, and consisting of many colours. They symbolised protection), among many others types of decorations.