Easter celebration brings together lots of
traditions, partially religious, partially pagan, which are respected especially in the rural areas from Transylvania but in big cities, where I live, too.
The Easter Holiday season ends with
Wet Monday or the second day of Easter.
Easter eggs in a basket
Wet Monday refers to the traditional pranks involving dousing people with water. Either for religious purposes or just for fun, or even out of inertia, everybody respects the
Easter wetting tradition. Nowadays the tradition consists of boys visiting girls and
wetting them with perfumes or cologne, to stay beautiful all year long.
Easter eggs dyed with onion skin
Girls have to stay at home and reward the boys who had wet them with beautifully
decorated eggs, cake and drinks. See how I
dye eggs the old way, with natural dye prepared of onion skins and decorate them with leaves for this special day.
I also make a few
hand painted eggs too, you can see them at this link.
Easter egg decoration with leaves
After a long week of working ourselves to death by thorough cleaning the house from carpets to curtains and gardens, shopping, preparing special sweets, lamb roast, dying Easter eggs, visiting friends and some of us, going to the church, as the tradition asks, Easter holiday season ends and tomorrow we can finally rest at work.
Easter celebration brings together lots of traditions, partially religious, partially pagan, which are respected especially in the rural areas from Transylvania but in big cities, where I live, too.
13 comments:
Love the eggs and all the traditions. Great post and photos!
Those eggs are works of art and should be under a glass cabinet or something.
Oh, I love the eggs and the traditions as well! What a fun day for everyone! Hope you have a wonderful week!
Sylvia
The eggs are gorgeous, they do look like works of art. I really enjoyed learning about the traditions of your country.
Beautifully precise prints on your eggs! We do our's the same way. It is always good to keep up traditions, after all, they add strcture to our lives.
What intricate eggs! Have a nice work/rest day!
You have some beatifully decorated eggs. I just bought some eggs decorated by a Czech woman at an art show. Much more delicate and elbaborate than ours usually are.
So beautifully done all of them.
Precious memories.
Interesting water tradition. I know the Portuguese and the Thais do it. Now I know you also ,
How did you dye the leaves on the eggs? Some one too used onion skin.
What delightful eggs!
Buna Maia , and thanks for sharing part of your culture and traditions
Very interesting
have a nice day
What intricately painted eggs. Thank you for sharing.
I think your eggs are fabulous btw!! Really nice job!!
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