Pentecost

In my Czech vocabulary, the author says there is a chevauchée des rois "kings' cavalcade" (a pageantry with masks) in some Moravian villages.
Somebody else told me they cut down a tree on Pentecost. Where can this custom be observed?

 

http://jizdakralu.vlcnov.cz/english/zen.php?pid=1001


but just missed it this year...

 

Thanks a lot, Meluzina. This tradition is great. If I can, I'll attend it next year.
What about chopping a tree?

 

http://www.trojanovice.cz/galerie/index ... aceni_maje

 

correct me if i am wrong, but the kaceni maje is actually the cutting down of the maypole that is put up the night of may 1??? so it's not actually a tree anymore??? i live in south bohemia, and here the maypole stays up the whole year (of course if no one steals it first )

 

You are right, it is not a tree anymore, just what remains of it, a big stick probably