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| Every color symbolizes something: red means fire, sun; black means absolutism, eternity; yellow is happiness and youth; green means spring, freshness and fertility; blue is health and vitality. |
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| A couple of decades ago men poured water on women in rural areas and women changed their clothes after each sprinkling. |
| Today women wear casual dresses for sprinkling, not folk costumes. Also, men sprinkle with cologne, not with water. | The possible reason for this very old tradition is that people believed in the cleaning, healing and fertility effect of water. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| On Easter Monday boys and men visit all of their women relatives, friends, neighbors, often even if they are not close friends. They greet girls and women with shorter - longer poems (mostly with a funny poem about "Eastern sprinkling") and sprinkle them with cologne. Women must be well-prepared, they treat men with dessert and beverages - and with hand-painted eggs. As result the most drank men you can find in Hungary on Easter Monday. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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