Author: Yellow Duckie
•21:06
Finally I got some time to update my blog and to begin with, here's some interesting discoveries I learnt about the Easter (Glad Påsk ~ pronounced Glad Posk) celebration here in Sweden. All this facts are contributed by word of mouth from my manager.

This is what easter is all about in Sweden (outside of church, of course) :


Chocolates


Semlor : Pastries stuff with Almond cream

Yellow chicks, painted eggs and WITCHES! Yes, even witches.

I was told that during easter, some of the family will set up a bon fire and little girls will dressed up as little witches with their cheeks painted with red dots. Story has it that it could be that in the past, during easter, a bon fire is set up outside your lawn to keep witches away. How this got incorporated into Easter, I really don't know.


Easter of course, marks the beginning of spring, however, this year, the weather was a little cranky and instead of covering the earth with bed of colourful wildflowers, it was covered with snow.

Apart from church, Easter has lost all it's initial meaning in Stockholm.. :(
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