Weird Easter traditions from around the world

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Weird Easter traditions from around the world
Topic Started: Apr 12 2009, 10:40 PM (158 Views)
XNavyGunner	Apr 12 2009, 10:40 PM Post #1
Gunner Posts: 11,696 Group: Global Moderators Member #89 Joined: Sep 5 2006 Gender Male	1. Surely the strangest Easter custom takes places in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, where there is a tradition of spanking or whipping women on Easter Monday. Males throw water at females and spank them with handmade whips made of willow and decorated with ribbons at the end. The spanking is supposed to be symbolic and according to legend, females should be spanked in order to keep their health and beauty during the next year. It doesn’t sound too fun for the women! 2. In Finland, children dress up and go begging in the streets with sooty faces, carrying broomsticks. Sounds a bit like Halloween? In some parts of Western Finland they even burn bonfires on Easter Sunday. But there is no sign of Guy Fawkes. This tradition takes place to ward off witches flying around between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. 3. On Maundy Thursday in Verges, in Spain, a traditional “death dance” is performed which involves a parade down the streets of the medieval town. Everyone involved is dressed in costumes and the procession ends with frightening skeletons carrying boxes of ashes. The scary dance begins at midnight and continues for three hours into the early morning. 4. If the man of the house in Poland takes part in preparing the traditional Easter bread, custom has it that his moustache will turn grey and the dough will fail. So the lucky man of the house is banned from helping out. 5. More than 4,500 eggs are used to cook up a giant omelette on the streets of Haux in France. The meal must feed up to 1,000 people and is prepared in the main square in time for lunch. 6. In Switzerland, villages turn their fountains into Easter Wells, using paper streamers, flowers and painted eggs to decorate them. The tradition takes place to celebrate the symbol of water, and its importance to the dry areas of the Alps. 7. In Germany the tradition is to create an Easter fire out of used Christmas trees from the winter. The fire is seen as a symbol of the victory for the beautiful and sunny spring over the cold days of winter. Perhaps we should start this tradition in freezing Britain! 8. In Latvia, the traditional Easter game played by the children is similar to conkers – but with eggs. Players pair off and use hard-boiled coloured eggs joined together with string. Competitors bang the ends of the eggs together until one player’s egg breaks. The winner is the player with the stronger egg. It sounds a bit messy to us. 9. The Easter bunny is the most popular symbol of Easter thanks to the Americans, but over in Australia they prefer to use their native marsupial, the Bilby. This is due to the fact that the rabbit has destoyed their land, crops and vegetation. No wonder they don’t like the bunny! 10. Britain actually does have some unusual traditions of its own. At the Hocktide festival in Hungerford, the town’s new police constable blows his horn to call all the men to the Hocktide Court in the town hall. Two men are then elected and parade through the streets giving women oranges in return for kisses. We wonder how they decide which men get to do that! Source I like the first one.



newbloodmoon	Apr 13 2009, 02:37 PM Post #2
Sik ómahkapi'si Posts: 1,618 Group: Members Member #3,302 Joined: Feb 22 2009 Gender Male Age Group 30's Country - USA Quotation - All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe	And don't forget in the Philippines they crucify people, and stick sharp poky things through their cheeks and other body parts for Easter.
	I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire


Mystical	Apr 14 2009, 01:32 AM Post #3
Posts: 14 Group: BANNED Member #416 Joined: Jun 25 2007 Gender Female	Strange customs ...very strange.



DONTEATUS	Apr 14 2009, 08:00 AM Post #4
Higher Species Posts: 2,631 Group: Members Member #3,287 Joined: Jan 30 2009 Gender Male	Here some paint eggs and hide them for little children to step on and put into woven baskets. Some even eat those eggs afterwards. I think thats a really old tradition from the Days we used to Burn Witches,and Howl at the Moon. But the People seem to like it. I`ll just take a Good B.B.Q and some Fine wine thank you. I missed Easter a lot this year. Makes me remember my Mom,She Loved this time of year. Happy Summer all! We miss you Isis!



Mystertikal	Apr 14 2009, 12:21 PM Post #5
Posts: 483 Group: BANNED Member #2,201 Joined: May 2 2008 Gender Male	The evolution of a holiday...makes you wonder how some of these traditions came to be!



LarryOldtimer	Apr 14 2009, 06:18 PM Post #6
The man!! Posts: 1,228 Group: Members Member #16 Joined: Jun 5 2006 Gender Male	According to the Venerable Bede, a noted Christian scholer, the original holiday was a pagan one . . . of both the Goddess Eostre (Saxon mother goddess) and the Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility, Ostare (all ancient goddesses names had various spellings.) Quite a mix that is. Bunnies and eggs were both symbols of fertility.



XNavyGunner	Apr 15 2009, 04:33 AM Post #7
Gunner Posts: 11,696 Group: Global Moderators Member #89 Joined: Sep 5 2006 Gender Male	My favorite tradition is the biting off the ears of chocolate rabbits.



DONTEATUS	Apr 15 2009, 09:08 AM Post #8
Higher Species Posts: 2,631 Group: Members Member #3,287 Joined: Jan 30 2009 Gender Male	You got that right XNavy



StrmySummer	Apr 15 2009, 02:57 PM Post #9
Storm Goddess Posts: 5,551 Group: Forum Reporter Member #43 Joined: Jul 10 2006 Gender Female	LarryOldtimer Apr 14 2009, 06:18 PM According to the Venerable Bede, a noted Christian scholer, the original holiday was a pagan one . . . of both the Goddess Eostre (Saxon mother goddess) and the Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility, Ostare (all ancient goddesses names had various spellings.) Quite a mix that is. Bunnies and eggs were both symbols of fertility. that actually makes sense Larry.....if ya think about it.....spring is the typically most fertile time or at least when things come to "life" again i think that first one is just an excuse to be kinky in public.....
	"Beginning now, let's play more, kiss more, love more, let's be so close that when one of us cries, the other tastes salt." "Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, and we are for the dark." - Shakespeare


newbloodmoon	Apr 18 2009, 08:17 AM Post #10
Sik ómahkapi'si Posts: 1,618 Group: Members Member #3,302 Joined: Feb 22 2009 Gender Male Age Group 30's Country - USA Quotation - All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe	I know someone who simply calls it "Dead guy on a stick day", to each their own I suppose.
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