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PHOTOS: Hungarian Easter celebrations chosen one of the world’s most unique
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Global online travel media brand Travel Mag has named Sprinkling in Hollókő as one of the top 20 most unique Easter celebrations in the world. To compile the list, Travel Mag only considered celebrations or festivals with a unique twist and a strong historic link to the past.
Travel Mag wrote the following about the Hungarian Easter traditions in Hollókő. “Across much of Eastern Europe, Easter is a time when women pre-emptively wear waterproof clothing. Or at least they should, for various forms of mildly irritating water-based iniquity are afoot. Known as smigus-dyngus in Poland, with similar events in Romania and Slovakia, it generally consists of men running around, throwing buckets of water over the womenfolk. It is, of course, willingly participated for the most part, with traditional costumes worn and rustic wooden buckets used for good measure. In Hungary’s Hollókő village, what is locally called Locsolkodás was upgraded so that instead of throwing buckets of water, smaller amounts are ‘sprinkled’ instead. In what seems like an unfair trade, by tradition, the women reciprocate by handing their assailants a shot of pálinka (a local fruit brandy)”.