What do you do for easter?

[GabiandVi 34]

In the Czech Republic we have lotsa Easter traditions. At Easter it´s spring actually starting after snowey winter and everything starts getting green and flowery and stuff. One of the traditions is: guys go out and get 8 willow branches and weave a special stick out of it and on Easter Monday they go out (lil ones with their Dads usually and big ones with friends) and visit the houses of the girls they know and the girls get whipped a lil with the willow stick as the guys say an Easter poem or something and then the girls give them something (like coloured hardboiled eggs, chocolate eggs, bunnies, decorated Easter eggs, colourful ribbons for their willow sticks, etc...big boys like to get some booze )...also adult males visit the women within their family and do similar things ...the purpose of the whipping is that the fresh young branches are supposed to give new energy to the women and if they get whipped with it they won´t dry out by the next Easter. (Ofcourse like everywhere these days some people get lazy and actually get the stuff you can buy at stores for the whipping, which is wooden forks, dry willow branches sticks - nothing fresh at all, plastic stick...I refuse to get whipped by any of those cuz first it hurts more, second according to me there´s no point in supporting lazy guys and ruining the traditions). So in Czech Rep. families and friends get to see each other at Easter a lot

I lived in the CR for a year. The Easter eggs are AMAZING. I was warned about the whipping so I didn't go out and about much on Easter Monday.

[Alex & Rachel 78]

I'm not doing anything this year, other than enjoying my five-day weekend and traveling down to London for my dad's birthday.

But one year my dad did an urban treasure hunt for us - we followed directional clues that were handed to us on a piece of paper - and ended up at the local chocolatier's where, upon giving a password to the lady behind the counter, we received an Easter chocolate basket each that my dad had prepaid for.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Nothing. Doesn't apply to me. Different religion.

Edited March 18, 2008 by consolemaster

[Dr. Obvious 49]

Dye eggs, hunt for eggs, play the whack an egg game on Easter morning. My family has a pretty lame Easter dinner tradition, that is, re-hashing Thanksgiving as Easter dinner. All holiday meals are the same in the house of my mother's family.

Ed wont be celebrating easter as he did in Romania, here in my house we dont EAT the Easter Bunny for lunch tongue.gif

That is what my in-laws do. I think that is really creepy and weird. I don't know about Romania, but in Germany, they definitely do have an Easter Bunny. I did discover that I do like rabbit legs. Tastes like chicken. The saddle is a bit gross though.

Generally, my husband's family goes to an Easter bonfire. These things are fairly amusing. Everyone gets all the trash wood and brush they can muster and they start the largest fire they can. Lots of drinking surrounds this and around Easter is also around the time when the first Maibock comes out. I think we saw 3 fistfights at the one I went to in 2006 and this is not a big town where my husband is from. Still, was fun. Although there will be no bonfires this year, we will probably have a small fire anyway for fun.

[Sinergy 3]

Dye eggs, hunt for eggs, play the whack an egg game on Easter morning. My family has a pretty lame Easter dinner tradition, that is, re-hashing Thanksgiving as Easter dinner. All holiday meals are the same in the house of my mother's family.

Ed wont be celebrating easter as he did in Romania, here in my house we dont EAT the Easter Bunny for lunch tongue.gif

That is what my in-laws do. I think that is really creepy and weird. I don't know about Romania, but in Germany, they definitely do have an Easter Bunny. I did discover that I do like rabbit legs. Tastes like chicken. The saddle is a bit gross though.

Generally, my husband's family goes to an Easter bonfire. These things are fairly amusing. Everyone gets all the trash wood and brush they can muster and they start the largest fire they can. Lots of drinking surrounds this and around Easter is also around the time when the first Maibock comes out. I think we saw 3 fistfights at the one I went to in 2006 and this is not a big town where my husband is from. Still, was fun. Although there will be no bonfires this year, we will probably have a small fire anyway for fun.

I never SAW the easter bunny in Romania, prolly bc ppl were eating him and his friend the lamb

However, my husband did say he never heard of the EASTER BUNNY per say til he began speaking to me bout 6 yrs ago. it may just be him tho.

[pedroh 21]

I eat real bunnies!!! omg!

[Sinergy 3]

I eat real bunnies!!! omg!

nooooooooooooo you too?

[Sister Fracas 5]

We'll celebrate the Vernal Equinox...with a bit of snow in the forecast... LOL

I'll be cooking a dinner of lamb and sides for 6 of us...pull out the china and crystal and then we'll just sit around chatting, play a game perhaps. My mum will come over with colored eggs and baskets of goodies. I wonder if my mum is the Easter Bunny!

HAPPY SPRING!

[Scott & Lai 12]

You mean Easter is about the church?? I always thought it was about that alcoholic guy dressed as a deranged rabbit at the mall, giving away chocolate eggs.

It's about the Resurrection of Jesus. Take that out, and personally, I don't see the point.

[Craneman 2]

I will be at the beach in Barra do Jucu

[Sister Fracas 5]

You mean Easter is about the church?? I always thought it was about that alcoholic guy dressed as a deranged rabbit at the mall, giving away chocolate eggs.

It's about the Resurrection of Jesus. Take that out, and personally, I don't see the point.

Well, Cristians did snatch another day from Pagans however here, evident in the fact that Easter occurs the first Sunday after the full moon after the vernal equinox. If there is no set day for when the resurrection occurred, how can one be sure when it did or even IF it did.

Pagan traditions....

The hot cross buns Julie was talking about came about at the feast of Saxon fertility goddess Eoster. An ox was sacrificed and the horns became a symbol for the feast. They were carved into the bread called buns, which came from the word "boun"....sacred ox

Easter bunny & eggs came from the Norse Goddess Ostara, which represented fertility. The egg as a symbol of fertility and of renewed life goes back to the ancient Egyptians and Persians, who had also the custom of coloring and eating eggs during their spring festival.

Easter lilies represented fertility by the pagans.

The Easter sunrise service is derived from the ancient pagan practice of welcoming the sun on the morning of the spring equinox, marking the beginning of spring.

[almaty 19]

sister fracas ( bff) .. a fountain of knowlege and lore

[Traviesa 0]

You mean Easter is about the church?? I always thought it was about that alcoholic guy dressed as a deranged rabbit at the mall, giving away chocolate eggs.

It's about the Resurrection of Jesus. Take that out, and personally, I don't see the point.

Well, Cristians did snatch another day from Pagans however here, evident in the fact that Easter occurs the first Sunday after the full moon after the vernal equinox. If there is no set day for when the resurrection occurred, how can one be sure when it did or even IF it did.

Pagan traditions....

The hot cross buns Julie was talking about came about at the feast of Saxon fertility goddess Eoster. An ox was sacrificed and the horns became a symbol for the feast. They were carved into the bread called buns, which came from the word "boun"....sacred ox

Easter bunny & eggs came from the Norse Goddess Ostara, which represented fertility. The egg as a symbol of fertility and of renewed life goes back to the ancient Egyptians and Persians, who had also the custom of coloring and eating eggs during their spring festival.

Easter lilies represented fertility by the pagans.

The Easter sunrise service is derived from the ancient pagan practice of welcoming the sun on the morning of the spring equinox, marking the beginning of spring.

I think a lot of holidays with Christian significance incorporate pagan traditions but traditions are just that and vary depending on where you live, etc. but the one thing constant is the significance.

[Sister Fracas 5]

I think a lot of holidays with Christian significance incorporate pagan traditions but traditions are just that and vary depending on where you live, etc. but the one thing constant is the significance.

yes, which is why celebrating the resurrection of Christ isn't only what the day is about.

[Traviesa 0]

I think a lot of holidays with Christian significance incorporate pagan traditions but traditions are just that and vary depending on where you live, etc. but the one thing constant is the significance.

yes, which is why celebrating the resurrection of Christ isn't only what the day is about.

Well, if you're not Christian.