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8 Traditions to celebrate Easter around the world by Hôtel★★★ Restaurant gourmand Coco Lodge Majunga.

What in Easter eggs, you find Love, Joy, Health, Friendship, Happiness and Goodwill.

Easter is not limited to a few days of vacation, intended to gorge themselves on chocolate rabbits and small soft-boiled eggs. It is an important religious festival which is accompanied by all kinds of traditions and customs. However, over the years, after having adapted and reinterpreted them, everyone on the planet could probably celebrate some of these practices. Even those who no longer believe in the Easter Bunny.

I asked some of my colleagues to share their favorite activities, to create a collection of the most impressive Easter traditions, fun and interesting from around the world.

KITES

On the occasion of Easter, Bermudians aim high, making kite flying their favorite pastime during this vacation. Bermudians make their own kites using wooden sticks and intricately patterned colored paper. All completed with a special fabric, called Hummers, to produce a snoring sound, aka the sound of Easter in Bermuda. Everyone comes together to fly their magnificent creations or go toHorseshoe Bay Beach to attend the annual kite festival, Good Friday.

POLICE STORIES

In some regions of the world, Easter is all about crime – and it's not about biting the ears of innocent chocolate bunnies or breaking beautifully decorated eggs. Non, we are talking aboutEaster crime, the Norwegian tradition of reading, watch and listen to crime stories and detective thrillers during the Easter holidays. The whole country seems suspended, while publishers and radio and television stations produce murder stories, with which even milk brands are associated by printing stories on their packaging.

EASTER NESTS HUNT

Who doesn’t love exploring the house and garden in search of baskets filled with chocolate? ? In Germany, in Switzerland and in many other countries practicing this custom, children (and even some adults, Why not ?!) hunt for Easter nests. These are actually baskets or boxes, garnished with rabbits or chocolate eggs, candy and toys, supposedly hidden by the Easter Bunny himself.

WATER BATTLES

Nothing symbolizes Easter like a friendly water fight. In any case, this is what the Poles think when celebrating Smigus Dyngus (Wet Monday – water festivities taking place on Easter Monday) with lots of H2O. In ancient times, they were mainly young single men looking for young girls to marry, but, From now on, almost everyone participates in the water fight. Weapons of choice are water guns, empty shampoo and dishwashing liquid bottles and, Of course, good old buckets. In fact, it's basically about using anything that can spray.

EGG HUNT

Eggs are linked to Easter like gifts are to Christmas – they are probably the most extraordinary food of this holiday. People color and decorate eggs, then hide them and discover them, they try to roll them in the grass as quickly as possible, they collide them to see which one will break last (aka who is the winner, who will be lucky) or, simply, they eat them. As in Haux, in France, where approximately 1.000 people enjoy a giant Easter omelette, prepared with more than 4 000 eggs and more than 45kg of bacon, garlic and onions.

FLYING CLAY POTS

Watch out for flying pottery on the Greek island of Corfu (petite confidence : it has nothing to do with our favorite wizard). Easter Saturday, to 11 precise times, Corfu residents throw clay pots (of all sizes) from their balconies. The tradition dates back to the 16th century, when people threw all their old, useless items out the window to welcome the new year – broken pots are believed to scare away evil spirits and mark a new beginning.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRETZELS

Luxembourgers celebrate Pretzel Sunday – Pretzel Sunday – the third Sunday of Lent. In fact, in Luxembourg, pretzels are puff pastry pastries, sweetened and topped with an almond glaze. By the way, if it was up to me, every Sunday would be dedicated to pretzels. But let's return to the tradition ofPretzel Sunday ; said Sunday, boys give a pretzel to the girl they like. If the girl accepts the treat, the boy will be allowed to visit him on Easter Sunday and will receive an egg in return. If all this happens in a leap year, the roles are reversed and it’s the girls’ turn to distribute pretzels.

HALLOWEEN IN SPRING

Sweden and some of its Scandinavian neighbors celebrate Halloween in spring. Thursday before Easter, children dress up as witches (equipped with brooms and copper kettles) and go, from door to door, ask for candy. Children usually offer decorated willow branches or drawings to adults in exchange for some treats. The tradition was born from a legend saying that Swedish witches went to Blue hill, before Easter, to party with the devil. To make sure the witches don't come back, Swedes light big bonfires on Easter Sunday.

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