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Easter Monday

Sprinkling in the Sóstó Museum Village in Nyíregyháza in 2022.

How Did Our Ancestors Celebrate Easter?

Easter is the most solemn celebration in the Christian world, commemorating the redemptive death on the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In addition to egg-painting and sprinkling water, there are many folk customs and traditions associated with Easter, which…
Gellért Hill (left) in a lithograph from 1825.

When Maidens Died of Easter Monday Sprinkling

In Reform Era Hungary, on Easter Monday in the countryside maidens would be grabbed by boys, dragged to the nearest river and ‘dipped’ in it. If there was no river nearby, they would be taken to wells, laid in troughs…

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