Easter in the UK: Symbols and Traditions

and Traditions

At this time in the UK there are tulips, crocuses

and daffodils. Schools close for 2 weeks

Week in many churches. Morning Good Friday (the last Friday

before Easter), which in England is called "good» begins with breakfast, during which freshly baked scones Crusades (hot cross buns) - spicy, lush, top before baking incised cross with raisins sometimes with candied fruit inside. There is a belief that rolls protect the house from evil spirits and have medicinal properties. Therefore, before people used to hang these muffins on kitchen ceilings.

small children then looking for them. So there was one

of the favorite children's Easter fun. Even held a special event - find eggs ("Eggstravaganza» - «Eggstravaganza»), a child who gets the most, wins a prize. These festivals are held in parks and restaurants, you can arrange a hunt for eggs and home to the delight of the kids

Easter Egg Hunt

It’s an egg hunt,
An Easter egg hunt.
It’s an egg hunt,
An Easter egg hunt.

Look in the trees.
Look in the grass.
Look in the pond.
Look in the flowers.

Easter song

It’s an egg hunt,
An Easter egg hunt.
It’s an egg hunt,
An Easter egg hunt.

Look in the bath.
Look in the bed.
Look in the fridge.

Look in me!
Oh no!

It’s an egg hunt,
An Easter egg hunt.
It’s an egg hunt,
An Easter egg hunt.

Easter eggs give each other on Palm Sunday. Today, however,

in the UK, decided to give friends and relatives are not real eggs, chocolate, caramel or within which any other sweets, and various souvenirs in the form of Easter eggs.

garlic meatballs, baked smoked ham, spring salad, sausage or bacon,

toffee apples, potatoes in rosemary-garlic butter. In England, on Easter the whole family, cook Sunday lunch: baked lamb with a variety of vegetables (which, in theory, should be a rabbit), baked Easter cake (simnel cake), paint eggs.

Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and perhaps in other counties, in the old

days there was a funny habit to carry each other on their hands. On Easter Monday the men wore women and women on Easter Tuesday - men. Two strong men or women crossed hands together in such a way that it turned out kind of "rest" for the third. In this manner managed to "drive" a few yards down the street!

so-called Morris Dancing. Dancers dressed as Robin Hood , performing

at numerous venues in parks , churches, and even in the streets of British cities . And in the small town of Olney occur famous races with pancakes. This is the last day of Maslenitsa , Tuesday . And this day is called Shrove Tuesday - from the verb Shrive ( forgive sins , confess ) . Participate in the run mostly by women. They run , tossing pancakes on a griddle . The winner should not just come to the finish line first . Still need to throw up

at Easter, where the ball is used instead of a

small wooden barrel filled with ale. El drunk when the game ends.

Oxford. Parishioners hold hands and "hug" his temple - form

a circle around him alive.