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Before we move to the actual Easter habits Slovaks practice on Easter Monday, I have to
mention our Easter decorations. To decorate your house before Easter is equally important
like the cooking. It's mostly women who decorate. Symbols of Easter in Slovakia are lamb,
small bunnies, little yellow chicks and painted egg shells called "kraslice" (sg. kraslica)
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Around 80 million chocolate eggs are eaten each
Chocolate eggs are mainly given to children.
Kraslica is an eggshell with two small holes on the two
sides of it. The egg inside has been
blown out of the shell. The techniques for decorating
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are different: the ornament is
drawn with melted wax, the egg is then painted, the-wax "ggs
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background there is a white omament teft. ro master
this skill you need to practice. Today it,s
mostly our grandmothers who decorate eggs in this way.
when I was a kid, I painted my
kraslice with the water colors and the final touch
ups consisted of glitter.
,The idea of the Easter bunny giving candie
during the Middle Ages, with the first written mention of this tradition datins back to the l6th
centurY
highest candy sales every year'
Easter and Halloween often compete for
The two holidays are always going head-to-head to have the most candy sales, usually coming
close to each other. In fact, some years people buy more candy the week before Easter than
the week before Halloweq.n
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n the old days, pretzels were associated with Easter.
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