Easter is the most important festival in the church year. It begins with Good Friday. Christians believe in Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion.
In Kengyel you can find two churches in a beautiful park opposite the Mayor's Office.
Our Church is lavishly decorated with flowers (daffodils and lilies) at Easter. On Saturday many people go to church and you can see the tradition of Easter Procession. People take their Easter ham and Easter eggs to sanctify them by the priest.
We send lots of postcards to our relatives. Traditional Easter foods are Easter egg with ham, stuffed cabbage and cold pork in aspic (meat jelly). Children believe that Easter Bunny brings the eggs. Boys go sprinkling girls in the morning. They recite a short poem:
Get up from your pillows
My violet beautiful
Look out of the window
The World is so wonderful.
I water you with some dew of sky
Let your bag fill up with red eggs of mine.
Then they sprinkle the girls using some eau de cologne. Girls welcome friends and relatives to their house. They offer them some soft drinks and cakes. Sometimes boys water them with a pail of water. It isn't very pleasant. Girls give the boys some red Easter eggs and some money, too. Many boys have got a lot of money by the end of the day. The sprinkled ones must wash their hair in the evening.
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That's true, while reading your text we can see that there are some similarities in our Easter traditions here in Poland and in Hungary.
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Happy Easter to you!