I wonder if it makes them grow faster...

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#1

Mad_Jack

Apr 23, 2011 21:39:44

 The annual "watering of the girls" in Hungary...

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Apparently, from the comments after the article, it's a yearly ritual in a certain part of Hungary where the girls go through the streets dressed up in traditional costumes and the boys toss water on them as some sort of purification ritual (rather than as a fertility ritual as it states in the article) whereupon the girls then give them a hollowed-out painted egg in return...

And yes, before anybody starts in with the wet-T-shirt jokes, somebody already went there in the comments beneath the article...)



#2

morandir62

Apr 23, 2011 22:36:21
A pre-Christian fertility ritual that still takes place traditionally in spring (around Easter).  Hum, I think I’ll add this to my campaign.
#3

ADHadh

Apr 24, 2011 3:58:59
It seems the Hungarians kept the custom more traditional than we did. Here it's just punks with water guns and balloons in the streets harassing people.