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| Will you get a cold shower or a whipping this Easter? |
| Bratislava, 02.04.2018 |
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| Easter traditions differ from region to region across Central Europe, involving water, whips, and lots of food.
If you are spending Easter in Bratislava and its surroundings, you are sure to come across people getting ready for the traditional Easter Monday whipping. But going further east, the tradition is rather dousing girls with cold water. So why are there these differences in the traditional Easter “pleasantries”?
Slovakia can be thought of as a crossing point of two Easter traditions: whipping and water-pouring. Whipping is common in western Slovakia, just like in countries to the west - Austria, Germany, and the Czech Republic, but also part of Poland. In eastern Slovakia, men would typically pour water on girls, like it is common in another part of Poland, Hungary and Ukraine, explained ethnographer Kornélia Jakubíková.
“The line between these two forms runs somewhere in the middle, through central Slovakia,” Jakubíková told The Slovak Spectator. “Currently, when people move within Slovakia, traditions are mixed and usually both of them are performed.”
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