Easter Monday tradition in Czechia

Hello :wave: dear Local Guides community,

I would like to share with you “Local Stories” related to today’s easter celebration - Easter Monday.

As you probably know, this celebration is mostly connected with Christian tradition when people over the world celebrate resurrection of Jesus from the dead. In Czech Republic we have rather unusual tradition on top of that.

Basically women begging man to get whipped with easter whip (at picture above).
You are probably asking "Wait, whaaaat?! Why? :astonished: "

According to this tradion when girl get whipped on easter Monday then the girl remain beautiful and healthy for the upcoming year.

Link to the IMAGE with action :slightly_smiling_face: .

Sometimes cold water is added to get a guaranteed result :smile: (link to IMAGE).
Nothing of these actions are not against girls will and at the end girls are happy and having fun.

How weird is that tradition for you? :thinking: :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hello @Rohlik ,

Thank you for sharing the unique Easter Monday tradition in Czechia, it is very interesting to learn traditions from different parts of the world.

While we appreciate you sharing the tradition with us, we saw that the photos you have posted does not appear to be your own and is in violation of the Local Guides Program Rules. I suggest you to edit your post and replace it your own photos.

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@AngieYC Thank you for inform me. I switched first one to photo with Creative Commons license and others was removed - replaced by a link.

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Wonderful tradition, @Rohlik . We don’t have anything remotely like it.

Thanks for sharing this.

Cheers

Morten

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