Easter Monday is the second day of the Christmas of the Resurrection. The top Christian holidays specified as Easter and Christmas are celebrated for 2 days in order to be able to consider these mysteries of faith. The tradition of Smigus-Dyngus is connected with Easter Monday. Smigus and Dyngus are 2 distinct customs that were practiced 1 day. That's why in time their names merged.
The Dyngus was called a donation given by housewives to men walking around on Easter Monday, making Christmas wishes and giving oration and poems about the Lord's torment, or comic parody. In return, they received eggs, sausages, and bread.
In turn, it is the customized of pouring water on Easter Monday. Therefore, the name ‘laps Monday’. The customized is likely to have pagan roots and is linked with joy after the winter and to rites to guarantee fertility and fertility.
Christianity added to this a purifying symbolism of water, as well as a tradition that water-smelling is simply a memorial to the crowds that gathered on Monday, discussing the Resurrection of Christ.
W Monday Easter hosts at dawn went out into the fields and sprinkled them with holy water, saying goodbye to the sign of the cross and pounding into the ground crosses made of palm trees dedicated on Palm Sunday, which was to guarantee yield and save the harvest from hailing. Fields were driven around in a horse procession.
However, young girls were mostly showered with water. The blameless maiden was upset and afraid due to the fact that it meant that local bachelors were not interested.
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