Easter symbols/traditions

Easter in Poland

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EASTER BASKET

This is an Easter basket (in Polish koszyczek wielkanocny). Polish people put Easter eggs, some bread, salt and pepper, some cress, a sausage, a sugar lamb, a chick and catkins inside their baskets.

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EASTER EGGS

For Polish people an Easter egg (in Polish pisanka) is the symbol of a new life. On Easter Sunday, they eat Easter breakfast, share an Easter egg or they look for chocolate eggs and wish each other lots of happiness and health.

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WET MONDAY

On Wet Monday (in Polish Lany Poniedziałek), Polish people pour water on each other for good luck.

Students from the Public Primary School no. 34 in Radom, Poland

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