Religious Easter Vlad Lungu VII B

People hold lighted candles during the religious mass and only put them out when they return
home, after they enter the house and make crosses. These Easter candles are kept for the
times of danger, when they will have a protective function.

At home, people first taste the anaphora and then sit to the table. They first eat some of the
sanctified aliments and only then the rest. In some regions, rabbit or fish meat is first eaten,
believing that these animals will confer to the people some of their agility. The shepherds and
the other persons who are away from home on Easter day eat willow or apple tree buds instead
of anaphora.

Theres the custom of knocking the eggs. It is believed that those who knock their eggs will see
each other on the other world, after death. In the first day of Easter, eggs are only knocked
with the top. On Monday they can be knocked top to the bottom and on the next days they can
be knocked any way. The first ones to knock their eggs are the parents, one to the other, then
the children to the parents and then the other relatives and friends. According to the tradition,
the one whose egg cracks first is weaker and he will die quicker. He must give his egg to the
winner; otherwise he will eat its egg rotten on the other world.