What are Easter traditions in your country?

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My origins are in Slovakia. 🇸🇰

You can experience here:
🥚 Painting eggs and giving out chocolate eggs/bunnies 🍫
🥧 Baking traditional dishes and serving alcoholic drinks 🥂
🎵 Singing traditional songs
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family gatherings

💦 OK, and this one... is not I am very proud of but... (quoted from the internet):

"Dousing women in water on Easter Monday is one of Slovakia's most treasured traditions. In some cases, after they are splashed with water, women are also whipped with a whip braided from thin branches of a willow." 🤦‍♀️ – it is because people believed that after this women would be pretty and healthy. 🫠🤦‍♀️😂

– thankfully, this is less common every year. People in villages used to take it seriously but as I said... thankfully. Less and less practised.

And what about your Easter holidays? 😀

Simona O'Neill · Accepted Answer

Love these traditions Nika! ☺️Well maybe not the water one 😅. Growing up in Lithuania we also painted eggs and had a tradition of gently whipping boys and girls with a colourful handmade bunch of twigs/willows. It was always fun and we didn’t get hurt in anyway but a weird tradition for sure 😂. I’ve been living in Ireland for the past 20 years and my husband is Irish . But we still maintained the tradition of painting eggs and then playing a game of cracking and rolling eggs. Makes it so much more interesting and fun than just giving each other a chocolate egg, which is the only Irish tradition as far as I know . 😊Happy Easter 🐣 Happy new beginning and super bright long days ! ☀️🥚

Simona O'Neill · Answer

@zer0tokens Vau labas! 🤗Visada smagu lietuviskai pakalbeti su kazkuom 😊. Haha, the best trick and the easiest way to paint eggs is to put loads of onion peels into a pot and cook your eggs in it. Always works .

Simona O'Neill · Answer

@busmark_w_nika hahaha I can just imagine. We don't do whipping anymore. It would not go down too well here  😂

Business Marketing with Nika · Answer

@simona_o_neill3 @zer0tokens  Hahaha, I have never been good at painting them... only at eating those chocolate eggs. 😄

Ignas Vaitukaitis · Answer

@simona_o_neill3 Labas fellow Lithuanian. Today is the first time I am teaching my Brazilian wife how to paint eggs, but I'm struggling with it myself 😄. I want to keep the tradition alive.

Simona O'Neill · Answer

@zer0tokens @busmark_w_nika well who doesn't like a bit of chocolate 😋

Nitin Joshi · Answer

Happy Easter to you!

Business Marketing with Nika · Answer

@viola_s which country are you from? 🙂

Gurkaran Singh · Answer

@busmark_w_nika bingo!

Business Marketing with Nika · Answer

@nitin_joshi Thank you Nitin! :-)

Business Marketing with Nika · Answer

@simona_o_neill3 That with water used to be pretty cringe. Guys threw the girls into the stream. 😭🙈😀 Thank god, I am not from the village so this tradition could not be examined on me. 😀 How do people from Ireland perceive your tradition of whipping? :D

Happy Easter, to you as well! ❤️🙂

Business Marketing with Nika · Answer

@thestarkster Is it called Diwali? :-)

Business Marketing with Nika · Answer

@viola_s Nice, the company I collab with originated from Munich. :)

Business Marketing with Nika · Answer

@marvin_maendle This tradition is quite good. Not so masochist like in our country :DD

Kate Ramakaieva · Answer

I'm staying in Poland now and here the same tradition with water is alive, but not only with woman as it was before - everyone is involved. Thanksfully the weather is almost like summer, so it is fun I guess (still staying at home 😁)

What are Easter traditions in your country?

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