Streszczenie
The article is a review of family beliefs and habits embedded in dialect phrases that the author
collected in several villages on the Lesser Poland-Masovian borderland. Such an approach
to the subject comprehensively shows the cultural and moral sphere of a given community
and preserves its specificity. As a rule organizing the material base, the author adopted the
method of thematic fields, which will allow to distinguish conceptual categories typical of the
rural linguistic and cultural community. Research on old customs and folk rituals – taking into
account socio-economic transformations – is a bridge connecting the present with the past.