The Watering Of The Girls
Photos of an Easter tradition in Hungary known as “The Watering of the Girls,” a pre-Christian fertility ritual where men throw buckets of water at young women. Hey, it’s no weirder than Mardi Gras.
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Cinnamon Broom 2 years agoI saw this in Bulgaria too, but it wasn’t just men throwing water on girls. When it was somebody’s “Saint’s day” (i.e. if your name is Peter it would be the day of the feast of St. Peter), everyone would throw water on you for good luck/blessing. Also, an old lady we visited threw water on all of us as a blessing because we were visiting her home.
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iamerickson 2 years agoSee how fun our Pagan holidays were before you Christians had to go and make it all about nailing your god to a tree and worshiping him when he comes back as a zombie?
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taylortunet 2 years agoPeople still dress like this? Where are their clogs? And do they all live in windmills?
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tranny 2 years agoThis is not from Hungary. Hungarians may have stolen the tradition and claim it as their own (afterall, they’d been oppressing Slavic countries in the area for 1,000 and never apologized nor attempt to cease the oppression). The watering of the girls (and boys which is done on the Tuesday, following Easter Monday) is a tradition that’s been practiced by the Slavs long before Hungarians dreamed about it.
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Jed Oliver 2 years agoThat’s eerily similar to a fertility ritual I witnessed once during Spring Break at Lake Havasu.
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