Easter eggs are not familiar to Indians till now. Production of Easter eggs, distribution and celebration are most common in foreign countries. Foreigners exchange Easter eggs on the occasion of Easter eve, as a symbol of celebration. Kids of America and Canada believe that Easter eggs are brought by rabbits. Kids of Italy, Belgium and France believe that Easter eggs are brought by morning bells of church. So, in those three days, churches of these countries never ring church bells. They believe that church bells have gone to Rome to bring Easter eggs.

In European countries, there is a funny game with Easter eggs. They use to hide Easter eggs somewhere so that kids can find it. Kids should search and find Easter eggs hidden in kitchen or garden. It’s believed that if kids are able to find them, it gives new happiness and luck to kids. Easter eggs are painted with different colours. Very often they are made of kids’ favourite items like chocolate or plastic.

Easter rabbits known as Easter bunny are equally significant as Easter eggs. Rabbits will be decorated with beautiful clothes and placed before kids. Kids’ future will be safe – elders believe so, if their kids see Easter bunnies. Very often elders disguise themselves as Easter bunnies to bring happiness and prosperous future for their kids.

Though the custom of giving Easter eggs existed in ancient times, there is no clear idea, from when this strange practice has started. Emperor Frederick Thomsun of 16^th century used to give colorful eggs made of sugar and rice to all those who visited church on Easter day. The eggs resembled eggs of hens and ducks a lot. He used to hide gold coins in a few eggs and lucky people used to get it.  In 17^th century Solomon smith of England used to shade colors on boiled eggs and disperse them to everyone. Bible quotes with Easter messages were written on those eggs. ‘Christ will return’, ‘Death where are you?’, ‘Death, you have failed’, ‘Death, where did you win?’ – Quotes with such meanings were written on those eggs. After that king used to conduct contests and winners were awarded with Easter eggs made of Gold.         

Article Posted By : Sandhya Rani  On April 03, 2013lView All Articles

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