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For a secret message hidden in media, see <a href="/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)" title="Easter egg (media)">Easter egg (media)</a>.</div> Easter eggs, also called Paschal eggs,<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> are <a href="/wiki/Egg" title="Egg">eggs</a> that are <a href="/wiki/Egg_decorating" title="Egg decorating">decorated</a> for the Christian holiday of <a href="/wiki/Easter" title="Easter">Easter</a>, which celebrates the <a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">resurrection of Jesus</a>. As such, Easter eggs are commonly used during the season of <a href="/wiki/Eastertide" title="Eastertide">Eastertide</a> (Easter season). The oldest tradition, which continues to be used in <a href="/wiki/Central_Europe" title="Central Europe">Central</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a>, is to dye and paint chicken eggs. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bg-easter-eggs.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Bg-easter-eggs.jpg/220px-Bg-easter-eggs.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Bg-easter-eggs.jpg/330px-Bg-easter-eggs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Bg-easter-eggs.jpg/440px-Bg-easter-eggs.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="2048"></a><figcaption>Decorated Easter eggs</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Unfinished_pysanka.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Unfinished_pysanka.jpg/170px-Unfinished_pysanka.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Unfinished_pysanka.jpg/255px-Unfinished_pysanka.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Unfinished_pysanka.jpg/340px-Unfinished_pysanka.jpg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="1024"></a><figcaption>Easter egg of the Ukrainian variety with the <a href="/wiki/Paschal_greeting" title="Paschal greeting">Paschal greeting</a> "Christ is Risen!" </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Osterei_Verzierung,_March_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Osterei_Verzierung%2C_March_2010.jpg/170px-Osterei_Verzierung%2C_March_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Osterei_Verzierung%2C_March_2010.jpg/255px-Osterei_Verzierung%2C_March_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Osterei_Verzierung%2C_March_2010.jpg/340px-Osterei_Verzierung%2C_March_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1224" data-file-height="1632"></a><figcaption>A chocolate Easter egg</figcaption></figure> Although eggs, in general, were a traditional symbol of fertility and rebirth,<a href="#cite_note-fertility-2">[2]</a> in <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>, for the celebration of Eastertide, Easter eggs symbolize the <a href="/wiki/Empty_tomb" title="Empty tomb">empty tomb</a> of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>, from which Jesus was <a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">resurrected</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Meaning-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-Symbolism-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> In addition, one ancient tradition was the staining of Easter eggs with the colour red "in memory of the <a href="/wiki/Blood_of_Christ" title="Blood of Christ">blood of Christ</a>, shed as at that time of his crucifixion."<a href="#cite_note-Meaning-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-Ellis1877-6">[6]</a> This custom of the Easter egg, according to many sources, can be traced to <a href="/wiki/Early_Christians" class="mw-redirect" title="Early Christians">early Christians</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a>, and from there it spread into Eastern Europe and Siberia through the Orthodox Churches, and later into Europe through the Catholic and Protestant Churches.<a href="#cite_note-Ellis1877-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-Thompson2013-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-History-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-Itihaas-9">[9]</a> Additionally, the widespread usage of Easter eggs, according to mediaevalist scholars, is due to the prohibition of eggs during <a href="/wiki/Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a> after which, on Easter, they are blessed for the occasion.<a href="#cite_note-Gainsford2018-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-D'Costa-11">[11]</a> A modern custom in some places is to substitute chocolate eggs wrapped in coloured <a href="/wiki/Foil_(metal)" title="Foil (metal)">foil</a>, hand-carved wooden eggs, or plastic eggs filled with <a href="/wiki/Confectionery" title="Confectionery">confectionery</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Chocolate" title="Chocolate">chocolate</a>. <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hungarian_easter_eggs_06.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Hungarian hímestojás" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Hungarian_easter_eggs_06.jpg/234px-Hungarian_easter_eggs_06.jpg" decoding="async" width="234" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Hungarian_easter_eggs_06.jpg/351px-Hungarian_easter_eggs_06.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Hungarian_easter_eggs_06.jpg/468px-Hungarian_easter_eggs_06.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456"></a><figcaption>The Easter eggs of Hungary, called hímestojás are handmade and gifted during Locsolkodás typically as courting or to family. It is also used in ticselés which is traditional gambling for kids.</figcaption></figure> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#History">1 History</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Traditions_and_customs">2 Traditions and customs</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Lenten_tradition">2.1 Lenten tradition</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Symbolism_and_related_customs">2.2 Symbolism and related customs</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Colouring">2.3 Colouring</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Patterning">2.4 Patterning</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Use_of_Easter_eggs_in_decorations">2.5 Use of Easter eggs in decorations</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Easter_egg_games">3 Easter egg games</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Egg_hunts">3.1 Egg hunts</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Egg_rolling">3.2 Egg rolling</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Egg_tapping">3.3 Egg tapping</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Egg_dance">3.4 Egg dance</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#Pace_egg_plays">3.5 Pace egg plays</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="#Variants">4 Variants</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Chocolate">4.1 Chocolate</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#Marzipan_eggs">4.2 Marzipan eggs</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Artificial_eggs">4.3 Artificial eggs</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="#Legends">5 Legends</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#Christian_traditions">5.1 Christian traditions</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#Parallels_in_other_faiths">5.2 Parallels in other faiths</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21"><a href="#See_also">6 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22"><a href="#References">7 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="#External_links">8 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="History">History</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> The practice of <a href="/wiki/Egg_decorating" title="Egg decorating">decorating eggshells</a> is quite ancient,<a href="#cite_note-pre-Christian-12">[12]</a> with decorated, engraved <a href="/wiki/Ostrich_egg" title="Ostrich egg">ostrich eggs</a> found in Africa which are 60,000 years old.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Egypt" title="Prehistoric Egypt">pre-dynastic period</a> of <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> and the early cultures of <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Crete" title="Crete">Crete</a>, eggs were associated with death and rebirth, as well as with kingship, with decorated ostrich eggs, and representations of ostrich eggs in gold and silver, were commonly placed in graves of the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians as early as 5,000 years ago.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> These cultural relationships may have influenced early Christian and Islamic cultures in those areas, as well as through mercantile, religious, and political links from those areas around the Mediterranean.<a href="#cite_note-Green-15">[15]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Red_Paschal_Egg_with_Cross.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Red_Paschal_Egg_with_Cross.JPG/220px-Red_Paschal_Egg_with_Cross.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="208" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2710" data-file-height="2562"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 208px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Red_Paschal_Egg_with_Cross.JPG/220px-Red_Paschal_Egg_with_Cross.JPG" data-width="220" data-height="208" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Red_Paschal_Egg_with_Cross.JPG/330px-Red_Paschal_Egg_with_Cross.JPG 1.5x, 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title="Crucifixion of Jesus">crucifixion</a>".<a href="#cite_note-Thompson2013-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-Williams2016-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-Ellis1877-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-History-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-Itihaas-9">[9]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Christian_Church" title="Christian Church">Christian Church</a> officially adopted the custom, regarding the eggs as a symbol of the <a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">resurrection of Jesus</a>, with the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Ritual" title="Roman Ritual">Roman Ritual</a>, the first edition of which was published in 1610 but which has texts of much older date, containing among the Easter Blessings of Food, one for eggs, along with those for lamb, bread, and new produce.<a href="#cite_note-History-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-Itihaas-9">[9]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">Lord, let the grace of your blessing + come upon these eggs, that they be healthful food for your faithful who eat them in thanksgiving for the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you forever and ever.</blockquote> Sociology professor Kenneth Thompson discusses the spread of the Easter egg throughout <a href="/wiki/Christendom" title="Christendom">Christendom</a>, writing that "use of eggs at Easter seems to have come from Persia into the Greek Christian Churches of Mesopotamia, thence to Russia and Siberia through the medium of Orthodox Christianity. From the Greek Church the custom was adopted by either the Roman Catholics or the Protestants and then spread through Europe."<a href="#cite_note-Thompson2013-7">[7]</a> Both Thompson, as well as British orientalist <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hyde" title="Thomas Hyde">Thomas Hyde</a> state that in addition to dyeing the eggs red, the early Christians of Mesopotamia also stained Easter eggs green and yellow.<a href="#cite_note-Ellis1877-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-Thompson2013-7">[7]</a> Peter Gainsford maintains that the association between eggs and Easter most likely arose in western Europe during the Middle Ages as a result of the fact that Catholic Christians were prohibited from eating eggs during Lent, but were allowed to eat them when Easter arrived.<a href="#cite_note-Gainsford2018-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-D'Costa-11">[11]</a> Influential 19th century <a href="/wiki/Folkloristics" class="mw-redirect" title="Folkloristics">folklorist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philology" title="Philology">philologist</a> <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Grimm" title="Jacob Grimm">Jacob Grimm</a> speculates, in the second volume of his <a href="/wiki/Deutsche_Mythologie" title="Deutsche Mythologie">Deutsche Mythologie</a>, that the <a href="/wiki/Folk_custom" class="mw-redirect" title="Folk custom">folk custom</a> of Easter eggs among the continental Germanic peoples may have stemmed from springtime festivities of a <a href="/wiki/List_of_Germanic_deities" title="List of Germanic deities">Germanic goddess</a> known in Old English as <a href="/wiki/%C4%92ostre" title="Ēostre">Ēostre</a> (namesake of modern English Easter) and possibly known in Old High German as *Ostara (and thus namesake of Modern German Ostern 'Easter'). However, despite Grimm's speculation, there is no evidence to connect eggs with a speculative deity named Ostara.<a href="#cite_note-D'Costa-11">[11]</a> The use of eggs as favors or treats at Easter originated when they were prohibited during Lent.<a href="#cite_note-Gainsford2018-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-D'Costa-11">[11]</a> A common practice in England in the medieval period was for children to go door-to-door begging for eggs on the Saturday before Lent began. People handed out eggs as special treats for children prior to their <a href="/wiki/Fasting#Christianity" title="Fasting">fast</a>.<a href="#cite_note-D'Costa-11">[11]</a> Although one of the Christian traditions are to use dyed or painted chicken eggs, a modern custom is to substitute chocolate eggs, or plastic eggs filled with <a href="/wiki/Candy" title="Candy">candy</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Jelly_bean" title="Jelly bean">jelly beans</a>; as many people give up sweets as their <a href="/wiki/Lenten_sacrifice" title="Lenten sacrifice">Lenten sacrifice</a>, individuals enjoy them at Easter after having abstained from them during the preceding forty days of <a href="/wiki/Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Shoda2014-18">[18]</a> These eggs can be hidden for children to find on Easter morning, which may be left by the <a href="/wiki/Easter_Bunny" title="Easter Bunny">Easter Bunny</a>. They may also be put in a <a href="/wiki/Basket" title="Basket">basket</a> filled with real or artificial straw to resemble a <a href="/wiki/Bird_nest" title="Bird nest">bird's nest</a>. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Traditions_and_customs">Traditions and customs</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Traditions and customs" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Egg_decorating" title="Egg decorating">Egg decorating</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pisanica_(Croatian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pisanica (Croatian)">Pisanica (Croatian)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pysanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Pysanka">Pysanka</a>, and <a href="/wiki/%C5%9Awi%C4%99conka" title="Święconka">Święconka</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Uskr%C5%A1nja_ko%C5%A1arica2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Uskr%C5%A1nja_ko%C5%A1arica2.jpg/220px-Uskr%C5%A1nja_ko%C5%A1arica2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="224" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1017"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 224px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Uskr%C5%A1nja_ko%C5%A1arica2.jpg/220px-Uskr%C5%A1nja_ko%C5%A1arica2.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="224" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Uskr%C5%A1nja_ko%C5%A1arica2.jpg/330px-Uskr%C5%A1nja_ko%C5%A1arica2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Uskr%C5%A1nja_ko%C5%A1arica2.jpg/440px-Uskr%C5%A1nja_ko%C5%A1arica2.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Croatian <a href="/wiki/Easter_basket" title="Easter basket">Easter basket</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%C5%9Awi%C4%99cone2007.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/%C5%9Awi%C4%99cone2007.jpg/220px-%C5%9Awi%C4%99cone2007.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1752" data-file-height="1168"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/%C5%9Awi%C4%99cone2007.jpg/220px-%C5%9Awi%C4%99cone2007.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/%C5%9Awi%C4%99cone2007.jpg/330px-%C5%9Awi%C4%99cone2007.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/%C5%9Awi%C4%99cone2007.jpg/440px-%C5%9Awi%C4%99cone2007.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Blessing of Easter foods in <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pasxalina_abga.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Pasxalina_abga.jpg/220px-Pasxalina_abga.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Pasxalina_abga.jpg/220px-Pasxalina_abga.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Pasxalina_abga.jpg/330px-Pasxalina_abga.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Pasxalina_abga.jpg/440px-Pasxalina_abga.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Red coloured Easter eggs</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lenten_tradition">Lenten tradition</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Lenten tradition" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The Easter egg tradition may also have merged into the celebration of the end of the privations of <a href="/wiki/Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a>. Traditionally, eggs are among the foods forbidden <a href="/wiki/Fasting" title="Fasting">fast</a> days, including all of Lent, an observance which continues among the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Christian_Churches" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Christian Churches">Eastern Christian Churches</a> but has fallen into disuse in <a href="/wiki/Western_Christianity" title="Western Christianity">Western Christianity</a>. Historically, it has been traditional to use up all of the household's eggs before Lent began. This established the tradition of <a href="/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday" title="Shrove Tuesday">Pancake Day</a> being celebrated on <a href="/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday" title="Shrove Tuesday">Shrove Tuesday</a>. This day, the Tuesday before <a href="/wiki/Ash_Wednesday" title="Ash Wednesday">Ash Wednesday</a> when Lent begins, is also known as <a href="/wiki/Mardi_Gras" title="Mardi Gras">Mardi Gras</a>, a French phrase which translates as "Fat Tuesday" to mark the last consumption of eggs and dairy before Lent begins. In the Orthodox Church, <a href="/wiki/Great_Lent" title="Great Lent">Great Lent</a> begins on <a href="/wiki/Clean_Monday" title="Clean Monday">Clean Monday</a>, rather than Wednesday, so the household's dairy products would be used up in the preceding week, called <a href="/wiki/Cheesefare_Week" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheesefare Week">Cheesefare Week</a>. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mico_de_Pascua_(Torreblanca,_Castell%C3%B3n).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Mico_de_Pascua_%28Torreblanca%2C_Castell%C3%B3n%29.jpg/220px-Mico_de_Pascua_%28Torreblanca%2C_Castell%C3%B3n%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Mico_de_Pascua_%28Torreblanca%2C_Castell%C3%B3n%29.jpg/220px-Mico_de_Pascua_%28Torreblanca%2C_Castell%C3%B3n%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Mico_de_Pascua_%28Torreblanca%2C_Castell%C3%B3n%29.jpg/330px-Mico_de_Pascua_%28Torreblanca%2C_Castell%C3%B3n%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Mico_de_Pascua_%28Torreblanca%2C_Castell%C3%B3n%29.jpg/440px-Mico_de_Pascua_%28Torreblanca%2C_Castell%C3%B3n%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Easter_mona" title="Easter mona">Easter mona</a> with chocolate or natural boiled eggs</figcaption></figure> During Lent, since chickens would not stop producing eggs during this time, a larger than usual store might be available at the end of the fast. This surplus, if any, had to be eaten quickly to prevent spoiling. Then, with the coming of Easter, the eating of eggs resumes. Some families cook a special meatloaf with eggs in it to be eaten with the Easter dinner. To avoid waste, it was common for families to <a href="/wiki/Boiled_egg" title="Boiled egg">hard boil</a> or <a href="/wiki/Pickled_egg" title="Pickled egg">pickle</a> eggs that their chickens produced during lent, and for this reason the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_cuisine" title="Spanish cuisine">Spanish dish</a> <a href="/wiki/Hornazo" title="Hornazo">hornazo</a> (traditionally eaten on and around Easter) contains hard-boiled eggs as a primary ingredient. In <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> it is common for godparents to give a <a href="/wiki/Easter_mona" title="Easter mona">Easter mona</a> to their godchildren during Easter period. In <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a>, eggs are used sliced in potato casseroles around the Easter period. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Symbolism_and_related_customs">Symbolism and related customs</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Symbolism and related customs" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Some Christians symbolically link the cracking open of Easter eggs with the <a href="/wiki/Empty_tomb" title="Empty tomb">empty tomb</a> of Jesus.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> In the Orthodox churches, Easter eggs are <a href="/wiki/Blessing" title="Blessing">blessed</a> by the priest at the end of the <a href="/wiki/Paschal_Vigil" class="mw-redirect" title="Paschal Vigil">Paschal Vigil</a> (which is equivalent to <a href="/wiki/Holy_Saturday" title="Holy Saturday">Holy Saturday</a>), and distributed to the faithful. The egg is seen by followers of <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> as a symbol of <a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">resurrection</a>: while being dormant it contains a new life sealed within it.<a href="#cite_note-Meaning-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-Symbolism-4">[4]</a> Similarly, in the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>, the so-called <a href="/wiki/%C5%9Awi%C4%99conka" title="Święconka">święconka</a>, i.e. blessing of decorative baskets with a sampling of Easter eggs and other symbolic foods, is one of the most enduring and beloved Polish traditions on Holy Saturday. During <a href="/wiki/Paschaltide" class="mw-redirect" title="Paschaltide">Paschaltide</a>, in some traditions the Pascal greeting with the Easter egg is even extended to the deceased. On either the second Monday or Tuesday of Pascha, after a <a href="/wiki/Memorial_service_(Orthodox)" class="mw-redirect" title="Memorial service (Orthodox)">memorial service</a> people bring blessed eggs to the cemetery and bring the joyous <a href="/wiki/Paschal_greeting" title="Paschal greeting">paschal greeting</a>, "Christ has risen", to their beloved departed (see <a href="/wiki/Radonitza" class="mw-redirect" title="Radonitza">Radonitza</a>). In <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>, women traditionally dye the eggs with onion skins and vinegar on Thursday (also the day of <a href="/wiki/Communion_rite" class="mw-redirect" title="Communion rite">Communion</a>). These ceremonial eggs are known as kokkina avga. They also bake <a href="/wiki/Tsoureki" title="Tsoureki">tsoureki</a> for the Easter Sunday feast.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> Red Easter eggs are sometimes served along the centerline of tsoureki (braided loaf of bread).<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, it is a tradition to decorate boiled eggs during <a href="/wiki/Sham_el-Nessim" class="mw-redirect" title="Sham el-Nessim">Sham el-Nessim</a> holiday, which falls every year after the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Christianity" title="Eastern Christianity">Eastern Christian</a> <a href="/wiki/Easter" title="Easter">Easter</a>. Coincidentally, every Passover, Jews place a hard-boiled egg on the Passover ceremonial plate, and the celebrants also eat hard-boiled eggs dipped in salt water as part of the ceremony. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Colouring">Colouring</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Colouring" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ostereier_-_Easter_eggs.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Ostereier_-_Easter_eggs.jpg/220px-Ostereier_-_Easter_eggs.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="5726" data-file-height="3648"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 140px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Ostereier_-_Easter_eggs.jpg/220px-Ostereier_-_Easter_eggs.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="140" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Ostereier_-_Easter_eggs.jpg/330px-Ostereier_-_Easter_eggs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Ostereier_-_Easter_eggs.jpg/440px-Ostereier_-_Easter_eggs.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Easter eggs before and after colouring</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Urz%C4%85dzenie_podgrzewaj%C4%85ce_kolorowy_wosk_do_malowania_pisanek_-_detal.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Urz%C4%85dzenie_podgrzewaj%C4%85ce_kolorowy_wosk_do_malowania_pisanek_-_detal.jpg/220px-Urz%C4%85dzenie_podgrzewaj%C4%85ce_kolorowy_wosk_do_malowania_pisanek_-_detal.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="4272" data-file-height="2848"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Urz%C4%85dzenie_podgrzewaj%C4%85ce_kolorowy_wosk_do_malowania_pisanek_-_detal.jpg/220px-Urz%C4%85dzenie_podgrzewaj%C4%85ce_kolorowy_wosk_do_malowania_pisanek_-_detal.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Urz%C4%85dzenie_podgrzewaj%C4%85ce_kolorowy_wosk_do_malowania_pisanek_-_detal.jpg/330px-Urz%C4%85dzenie_podgrzewaj%C4%85ce_kolorowy_wosk_do_malowania_pisanek_-_detal.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Urz%C4%85dzenie_podgrzewaj%C4%85ce_kolorowy_wosk_do_malowania_pisanek_-_detal.jpg/440px-Urz%C4%85dzenie_podgrzewaj%C4%85ce_kolorowy_wosk_do_malowania_pisanek_-_detal.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Heated wax paint used to decorate traditional Easter Eggs in the Czech Republic and Slovakia</figcaption></figure> The dyeing of Easter eggs in different colours is commonplace, with colour being achieved through boiling the egg in natural substances (such as, <a href="/wiki/Onion" title="Onion">onion</a> peel (brown colour), <a href="/wiki/Oak" title="Oak">oak</a> or <a href="/wiki/Alder" title="Alder">alder</a> bark or <a href="/wiki/Walnut" title="Walnut">walnut</a> nutshell (black), <a href="/wiki/Beet" class="mw-redirect" title="Beet">beet</a> juice (pink) etc.), or using <a href="/wiki/Artificial_colouring" class="mw-redirect" title="Artificial colouring">artificial colourings</a>. A greater variety of colour was often provided by tying on the onion skin with different coloured woollen <a href="/wiki/Yarn" title="Yarn">yarn</a>. In the North of England these are called pace-eggs or paste-eggs, from a dialectal form of Middle English pasche. <a href="/wiki/Edward_I_of_England" title="Edward I of England">King Edward I</a>'s household accounts in 1290 list an item of 'one shilling and sixpence for the decoration and distribution of 450 Pace-eggs!',<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> which were to be coloured or gilded and given to members of the royal household.<a href="#cite_note-:2-24">[24]</a> Traditionally in England, eggs were wrapped in <a href="/wiki/Onion" title="Onion">onion</a> skins and boiled to make their shells look like mottled gold, or wrapped in flowers and leaves first in order to leave a pattern, which parallels a custom practised in traditional <a href="/wiki/Scandinavia" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavian</a> culture.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> Eggs could also be drawn on with a wax candle before staining, often with a person's name and date on the egg.<a href="#cite_note-:2-24">[24]</a> Pace Eggs were generally eaten for breakfast on <a href="/wiki/Easter" title="Easter">Easter Sunday</a> breakfast. Alternatively, they could be kept as decorations, used in egg-jarping (<a href="/wiki/Egg_tapping" title="Egg tapping">egg tapping</a>) games, or given to <a href="/wiki/Pace_Egg_play" title="Pace Egg play">Pace Eggers</a>. In more recent centuries in England, eggs have been stained with coffee grains<a href="#cite_note-:2-24">[24]</a> or simply boiled and painted in their shells.<a href="#cite_note-:0-26">[26]</a> In the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, Easter eggs are dyed red to represent the <a href="/wiki/Blood_of_Christ" title="Blood of Christ">blood of Christ</a>, with further symbolism being found in the hard shell of the egg symbolizing the sealed <a href="/wiki/Holy_Sepulchre" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy Sepulchre">Tomb of Christ</a>—the cracking of which symbolized his resurrection from the dead. The tradition of red easter eggs was used by the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a>.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> The tradition to dyeing the easter eggs in an Onion tone exists in the cultures of <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czechia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slovakia" title="Slovakia">Slovakia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slovenia" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> The colour is made by boiling onion peel in water.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Patterning">Patterning</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Patterning" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> When boiling them with onion skins, leaves can be attached prior to dyeing to create leaf patterns. The leaves are attached to the eggs before they are dyed with a transparent cloth to wrap the eggs with like inexpensive muslin or nylon stockings, leaving patterns once the leaves are removed after the dyeing process.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> These eggs are part of <a href="/wiki/Easter_custom" class="mw-redirect" title="Easter custom">Easter custom</a> in many areas and often accompany other traditional <a href="/wiki/Easter_food" title="Easter food">Easter foods</a>. <a href="/wiki/Passover" title="Passover">Passover</a> <a href="/wiki/Haminados" title="Haminados">haminados</a> are prepared with similar methods. <a href="/wiki/Pysanky" class="mw-redirect" title="Pysanky">Pysanky</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> are Ukrainian Easter eggs, decorated using a wax-resist (<a href="/wiki/Batik" title="Batik">batik</a>) method. The word comes from the verb pysaty, "to write", as the designs are not painted on, but written with <a href="/wiki/Beeswax" title="Beeswax">beeswax</a>. Lithuanians create intricately detailed margučiai using a hot wax application and dipping method, and also by dipping the eggs first and then etching designs into the shells.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> Decorating eggs for Easter using wax resistant batik is a popular method in some other eastern European countries. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Use_of_Easter_eggs_in_decorations">Use of Easter eggs in decorations</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Use of Easter eggs in decorations" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In some <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a> countries, especially in <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>, chicken eggs are boiled and decorated by dye and/or painting and used as decoration<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> around the house. Then, on <a href="/wiki/Easter_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Easter Day">Easter Day</a>, young kids would duel with them saying "Christ is resurrected, Indeed, He is", breaking and eating them. This also happens in <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Macedonia" title="North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a>, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine. In Easter Sunday friends and family hit each other's egg with their own. The one whose egg does not break is believed to be in for good luck in the future. In Germany, eggs decorate trees and bushes as <a href="/wiki/Easter_egg_tree" title="Easter egg tree">Easter egg trees</a>, and in several areas public wells as <a href="/wiki/Osterbrunnen" title="Osterbrunnen">Osterbrunnen</a>. There used to be a custom in <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>, during Easter celebrations to have <a href="/wiki/Krashanky" class="mw-redirect" title="Krashanky">krashanky</a> on a table in a bowl with wheatgrass. The number of the krashanky equalled the number of departed family members.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Pysanky2011.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Ukrainian Easter eggs"><noscript><img alt="Ukrainian Easter eggs" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Pysanky2011.JPG/120px-Pysanky2011.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="82" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3250" data-file-height="2224"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 82px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Pysanky2011.JPG/120px-Pysanky2011.JPG" data-alt="Ukrainian Easter eggs" data-width="120" data-height="82" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Pysanky2011.JPG/180px-Pysanky2011.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Pysanky2011.JPG/240px-Pysanky2011.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Ukrainian Easter eggs</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Sorbische_Ostereier.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Easter eggs from Sorbs"><noscript><img alt="Easter eggs from Sorbs" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Sorbische_Ostereier.jpg/120px-Sorbische_Ostereier.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="84" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="974" data-file-height="684"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 84px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Sorbische_Ostereier.jpg/120px-Sorbische_Ostereier.jpg" data-alt="Easter eggs from Sorbs" data-width="120" data-height="84" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Sorbische_Ostereier.jpg/180px-Sorbische_Ostereier.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Sorbische_Ostereier.jpg/240px-Sorbische_Ostereier.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Easter eggs from <a href="/wiki/Sorbs" title="Sorbs">Sorbs</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Marguciai2._2007-04-21.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Easter eggs from Lithuania"><noscript><img alt="Easter eggs from Lithuania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Marguciai2._2007-04-21.jpg/120px-Marguciai2._2007-04-21.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1469" data-file-height="1102"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 90px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Marguciai2._2007-04-21.jpg/120px-Marguciai2._2007-04-21.jpg" data-alt="Easter eggs from Lithuania" data-width="120" data-height="90" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Marguciai2._2007-04-21.jpg/180px-Marguciai2._2007-04-21.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Marguciai2._2007-04-21.jpg/240px-Marguciai2._2007-04-21.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Easter eggs from <a href="/wiki/Lithuania" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Sleepingbeauty.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Perforated egg from Germany, Sleeping Beauty"><noscript><img alt="Perforated egg from Germany, Sleeping Beauty" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Sleepingbeauty.jpg/84px-Sleepingbeauty.jpg" decoding="async" width="84" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="183" data-file-height="262"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 84px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Sleepingbeauty.jpg/84px-Sleepingbeauty.jpg" data-alt="Perforated egg from Germany, Sleeping Beauty" data-width="84" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Sleepingbeauty.jpg/126px-Sleepingbeauty.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Sleepingbeauty.jpg/167px-Sleepingbeauty.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Perforated egg from <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, Sleeping Beauty</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Egg_dekorerte.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Norwegian Easter eggs"><noscript><img alt="Norwegian Easter eggs" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Egg_dekorerte.jpg/120px-Egg_dekorerte.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="82" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="370" data-file-height="252"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 82px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Egg_dekorerte.jpg/120px-Egg_dekorerte.jpg" data-alt="Norwegian Easter eggs" data-width="120" data-height="82" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Egg_dekorerte.jpg/180px-Egg_dekorerte.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Egg_dekorerte.jpg/240px-Egg_dekorerte.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Norwegian Easter eggs</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Ostereier-Griechenland.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Easter eggs from Greece"><noscript><img alt="Easter eggs from Greece" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Ostereier-Griechenland.JPG/120px-Ostereier-Griechenland.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="83" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3735" data-file-height="2595"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 83px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Ostereier-Griechenland.JPG/120px-Ostereier-Griechenland.JPG" data-alt="Easter eggs from Greece" data-width="120" data-height="83" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Ostereier-Griechenland.JPG/180px-Ostereier-Griechenland.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Ostereier-Griechenland.JPG/240px-Ostereier-Griechenland.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Easter eggs from <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Pisanki_a%C5%BCurowe.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Perforated eggs"><noscript><img alt="Perforated eggs" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Pisanki_a%C5%BCurowe.jpg/120px-Pisanki_a%C5%BCurowe.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="81" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="687"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 81px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Pisanki_a%C5%BCurowe.jpg/120px-Pisanki_a%C5%BCurowe.jpg" data-alt="Perforated eggs" data-width="120" data-height="81" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Pisanki_a%C5%BCurowe.jpg/180px-Pisanki_a%C5%BCurowe.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Pisanki_a%C5%BCurowe.jpg/240px-Pisanki_a%C5%BCurowe.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Perforated eggs</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; 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height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:White_House_Easter_Egg_Roll.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="American Easter egg from the White House Washington, D.C."><noscript><img alt="American Easter egg from the White House Washington, D.C." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/White_House_Easter_Egg_Roll.jpg/85px-White_House_Easter_Egg_Roll.jpg" decoding="async" width="85" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2052" data-file-height="2892"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 85px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/White_House_Easter_Egg_Roll.jpg/85px-White_House_Easter_Egg_Roll.jpg" data-alt="American Easter egg from the White House Washington, D.C." data-width="85" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/White_House_Easter_Egg_Roll.jpg/128px-White_House_Easter_Egg_Roll.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/White_House_Easter_Egg_Roll.jpg/170px-White_House_Easter_Egg_Roll.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">American Easter egg from the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Oeufs.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pace eggs boiled with onion skins and leaf patterns."><noscript><img alt="Pace eggs boiled with onion skins and leaf patterns." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Oeufs.jpg/120px-Oeufs.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 90px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Oeufs.jpg/120px-Oeufs.jpg" data-alt="Pace eggs boiled with onion skins and leaf patterns." data-width="120" data-height="90" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Oeufs.jpg/180px-Oeufs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Oeufs.jpg/240px-Oeufs.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Pace eggs boiled with onion skins and leaf patterns.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Red_and_blue_Easter_eggs.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Easter eggs decorated with straw"><noscript><img alt="Easter eggs decorated with straw" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Red_and_blue_Easter_eggs.jpg/120px-Red_and_blue_Easter_eggs.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 90px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Red_and_blue_Easter_eggs.jpg/120px-Red_and_blue_Easter_eggs.jpg" data-alt="Easter eggs decorated with straw" data-width="120" data-height="90" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Red_and_blue_Easter_eggs.jpg/180px-Red_and_blue_Easter_eggs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Red_and_blue_Easter_eggs.jpg/240px-Red_and_blue_Easter_eggs.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Easter eggs decorated with straw</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:04_Easter_eggs_at_a_Cultural_Miner%27s_House_in_Sanok.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Easter egg from Poland"><noscript><img alt="Easter egg from Poland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/04_Easter_eggs_at_a_Cultural_Miner%27s_House_in_Sanok.JPG/120px-04_Easter_eggs_at_a_Cultural_Miner%27s_House_in_Sanok.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="534"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 80px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/04_Easter_eggs_at_a_Cultural_Miner%27s_House_in_Sanok.JPG/120px-04_Easter_eggs_at_a_Cultural_Miner%27s_House_in_Sanok.JPG" data-alt="Easter egg from Poland" data-width="120" data-height="80" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/04_Easter_eggs_at_a_Cultural_Miner%27s_House_in_Sanok.JPG/180px-04_Easter_eggs_at_a_Cultural_Miner%27s_House_in_Sanok.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/04_Easter_eggs_at_a_Cultural_Miner%27s_House_in_Sanok.JPG/240px-04_Easter_eggs_at_a_Cultural_Miner%27s_House_in_Sanok.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Easter egg from <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Washi_Egg_Japan_US_2.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Washi egg from Japan"><noscript><img alt="Washi egg from Japan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Washi_Egg_Japan_US_2.png/120px-Washi_Egg_Japan_US_2.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 90px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Washi_Egg_Japan_US_2.png/120px-Washi_Egg_Japan_US_2.png" data-alt="Washi egg from Japan" data-width="120" data-height="90" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Washi_Egg_Japan_US_2.png/180px-Washi_Egg_Japan_US_2.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Washi_Egg_Japan_US_2.png/240px-Washi_Egg_Japan_US_2.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Washi_eggs" class="mw-redirect" title="Washi eggs">Washi egg</a> from Japan</div> </li> </ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Easter_egg_games">Easter egg games</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Easter egg games" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Easter_Egg_Hunt_(5623253840).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Easter_Egg_Hunt_%285623253840%29.jpg/220px-Easter_Egg_Hunt_%285623253840%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="945" data-file-height="1417"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 330px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Easter_Egg_Hunt_%285623253840%29.jpg/220px-Easter_Egg_Hunt_%285623253840%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="330" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Easter_Egg_Hunt_%285623253840%29.jpg/330px-Easter_Egg_Hunt_%285623253840%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Easter_Egg_Hunt_%285623253840%29.jpg/440px-Easter_Egg_Hunt_%285623253840%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Eggs hidden for an <a href="/wiki/Egg_hunt" title="Egg hunt">Easter egg hunt</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Egg_hunts">Egg hunts</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Egg hunts" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> An <a href="/wiki/Egg_hunt" title="Egg hunt">egg hunt</a> is a game in which <a href="/wiki/Decorated_egg" class="mw-redirect" title="Decorated egg">decorated eggs</a>, which may be hard-boiled chicken eggs, <a href="/wiki/Chocolate" title="Chocolate">chocolate</a> eggs, or artificial eggs containing <a href="/wiki/Candy" title="Candy">candies</a>, are hidden for children to find. The eggs often vary in size, and may be hidden both indoors and outdoors.<a href="#cite_note-puritan-37">[37]</a> When the hunt is over, prizes may be given for the largest number of eggs collected, or for the largest or the smallest egg.<a href="#cite_note-puritan-37">[37]</a> Some Central European nations (<a href="/wiki/Czechs" title="Czechs">Czechs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slovaks" title="Slovaks">Slovaks</a>, etc.) have a tradition of men gathering eggs from women in return for whipping them with an <a href="/wiki/Easter_whip" title="Easter whip">easter whip</a> and <a href="/wiki/%C5%9Amigus-dyngus" title="Śmigus-dyngus">splashing them with water</a>. The ritual is traditionally believed to preserve the women's health and beauty. <a href="/wiki/Cascar%C3%B3n" title="Cascarón">Cascarones</a>, a Latin American tradition now shared by many US States with high Hispanic demographics, are emptied and dried chicken eggs stuffed with confetti and sealed with a piece of tissue paper. The eggs are hidden in a similar tradition to the American Easter egg hunt and when found the children (and adults) break them over each other's heads. In order to enable children to take part in egg hunts despite visual impairment, eggs have been created that emit various clicks, beeps, noises, or music so that visually impaired children can easily hunt for Easter eggs.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Egg_rolling">Egg rolling</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Egg rolling" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/Egg_rolling" title="Egg rolling">Egg rolling</a> is also a traditional Easter Egg game played with eggs at Easter. In the United Kingdom, Germany, and other countries children traditionally rolled eggs down hillsides at Easter.<a href="#cite_note-inventors-39">[39]</a> This tradition was taken to the <a href="/wiki/New_World" title="New World">New World</a> by European settlers,<a href="#cite_note-inventors-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> and continues to this day each Easter with an <a href="/wiki/Easter_egg_roll" class="mw-redirect" title="Easter egg roll">Easter egg roll</a> on the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> lawn. <a href="/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes" title="Rutherford B. Hayes">Rutherford B. Hayes</a> started the tradition of the Easter Egg Roll at the White House.<a href="#cite_note-auto-41">[41]</a> The Easter Monday Egg Roll was normally held at the United States Capitol, however, by the mid-1870s, Congress passed a law forbidding the Capitol's grounds to be used for the activity due to the toll it was taking on the landscape.<a href="#cite_note-auto-41">[41]</a> The law was enforced in 1877, but the rain that year canceled all outdoor activities.<a href="#cite_note-auto-41">[41]</a> In 1878, Hayes was approached by many young Easter Egg rollers who asked for the event to be held at the White House.<a href="#cite_note-auto-41">[41]</a> He invited any children who wanted to roll eggs to come to the White House in order to do so. The tradition still occurs every year on the South Lawn of the White House. Now, there are many other games and activities that take place such as "Egg Picking" and "Egg Ball".<a href="#cite_note-auto-41">[41]</a> Different nations have different versions of the Easter Egg roll game. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Egg_tapping">Egg tapping</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Egg tapping" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eierkippen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Eierkippen.jpg/220px-Eierkippen.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2592"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Eierkippen.jpg/220px-Eierkippen.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Eierkippen.jpg/330px-Eierkippen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Eierkippen.jpg/440px-Eierkippen.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Eggs after an egg tapping competition (red wins)</figcaption></figure> In the <a href="/wiki/North_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="North of England">North of England</a>, during Eastertide, a traditional game is played where hard boiled pace eggs are distributed and each player hits the other player's egg with their own. This is known as "<a href="/wiki/Egg_tapping" title="Egg tapping">egg tapping</a>", "egg dumping", or "egg jarping". The winner is the holder of the last intact egg. The annual egg jarping world championship is held every year over Easter in <a href="/wiki/Peterlee" title="Peterlee">Peterlee</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Durham" title="County Durham">Durham</a>.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> It is also practiced in Italy (where it is called scuccetta), Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Lebanon, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia (where it is called turčanje or trkanje), Ukraine, Russia, and other countries. In parts of Austria, Bavaria and German-speaking Switzerland it is called Ostereiertitschen or Eierpecken. In parts of Europe it is also called epper, presumably from the German name Opfer, meaning "offering" and in Greece it is known as tsougrisma. In South <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a>, this practice is called pocking eggs<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> and is slightly different. The <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Creole_people" title="Louisiana Creole people">Louisiana Creoles</a> hold that the winner eats the eggs of the losers in each round. In the Greek Orthodox tradition, red eggs are also cracked together when people exchange Easter greetings. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Egg_dance">Egg dance</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Egg dance" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <a href="/wiki/Egg_dance" title="Egg dance">Egg dance</a> is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal is to dance among them without damaging any eggs<a href="#cite_note-newall-45">[45]</a> which originated in Germany. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pace_egg_plays">Pace egg plays</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Pace egg plays" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The <a href="/wiki/Pace_Egg_play" title="Pace Egg play">Pace Egg plays</a> are traditional village plays, with a rebirth theme. The drama takes the form of a combat between the hero and villain, in which the hero is killed and brought back to life. The plays take place in England during Easter.<figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Osterstrauss_08.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Osterstrauss_08.jpg/220px-Osterstrauss_08.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="184" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2460" data-file-height="2053"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 184px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Osterstrauss_08.jpg/220px-Osterstrauss_08.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="184" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Osterstrauss_08.jpg/330px-Osterstrauss_08.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Osterstrauss_08.jpg/440px-Osterstrauss_08.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>In some countries like Sweden, Norway, Poland, Slovakia and Germany eggs are used as a table decoration hanging on a tree-branch.</figcaption></figure> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Variants">Variants</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Variants" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chocolate">Chocolate</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Chocolate" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Chocolate eggs first appeared at the court of <a href="/wiki/Louis_XIV" title="Louis XIV">Louis XIV</a> in Versailles and in 1725 the widow Giambone in <a href="/wiki/Turin" title="Turin">Turin</a> started producing chocolate eggs by filling empty chicken egg shells with molten chocolate.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> In 1873, <a href="/wiki/J.S._Fry_%26_Sons" class="mw-redirect" title="J.S. Fry & Sons">J.S. Fry & Sons</a> produced the first hollow chocolate egg using egg moulds.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> Manufacturing their first Easter egg in 1875, <a href="/wiki/Cadbury" title="Cadbury">Cadbury</a> created the modern chocolate Easter egg after developing a pure cocoa butter that could be moulded into smooth shapes.<a href="#cite_note-Easter-48">[48]</a> In Western cultures, the giving of chocolate eggs is now commonplace, with 80 million Easter eggs sold in the UK alone. Formerly, the containers Easter eggs were sold in contained large amounts of plastic, although in the United Kingdom this has gradually been replaced with recyclable paper and cardboard.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> In Brazil, Argentina, Chile Uruguay and Paraguay,<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> hollow chocolate eggs known as Ovos de Páscoa or Huevos de Páscua (Easter eggs) are popular and are commonly sold around Easter in supermarkets.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> Variations of this dessert containing fillings such as pistachio cream, hazelnut cream, <a href="/wiki/Furrundu" title="Furrundu">furrundu</a><a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> or <a href="/wiki/Doce_de_leite" class="mw-redirect" title="Doce de leite">doce de leite</a>, are known as Ovos de Páscoa de colher (Spoon Easter eggs) or Ovos de colher (Spoon eggs).<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Easter-Chocolate-egg-bunny.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Chocolate Easter egg bunny"><noscript><img alt="Chocolate Easter egg bunny" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Easter-Chocolate-egg-bunny.jpg/120px-Easter-Chocolate-egg-bunny.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="768"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Easter-Chocolate-egg-bunny.jpg/120px-Easter-Chocolate-egg-bunny.jpg" data-alt="Chocolate Easter egg bunny" data-width="120" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Easter-Chocolate-egg-bunny.jpg/180px-Easter-Chocolate-egg-bunny.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Easter-Chocolate-egg-bunny.jpg/240px-Easter-Chocolate-egg-bunny.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Chocolate Easter egg bunny</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Easter_egg_with_candy.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Easter egg with candy"><noscript><img alt="Easter egg with candy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Easter_egg_with_candy.jpg/120px-Easter_egg_with_candy.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="81" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2360" data-file-height="1600"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 81px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Easter_egg_with_candy.jpg/120px-Easter_egg_with_candy.jpg" data-alt="Easter egg with candy" data-width="120" data-height="81" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Easter_egg_with_candy.jpg/180px-Easter_egg_with_candy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Easter_egg_with_candy.jpg/240px-Easter_egg_with_candy.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Easter egg with candy</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Gladys_as_a_Chocolate_Easter_Bunny.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Gladys as a Chocolate Easter Bunny with Easter eggs"><noscript><img alt="Gladys as a Chocolate Easter Bunny with Easter eggs" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Gladys_as_a_Chocolate_Easter_Bunny.jpg/120px-Gladys_as_a_Chocolate_Easter_Bunny.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="82" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="473" data-file-height="325"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 82px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Gladys_as_a_Chocolate_Easter_Bunny.jpg/120px-Gladys_as_a_Chocolate_Easter_Bunny.jpg" data-alt="Gladys as a Chocolate Easter Bunny with Easter eggs" data-width="120" data-height="82" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Gladys_as_a_Chocolate_Easter_Bunny.jpg/180px-Gladys_as_a_Chocolate_Easter_Bunny.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Gladys_as_a_Chocolate_Easter_Bunny.jpg/240px-Gladys_as_a_Chocolate_Easter_Bunny.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Gladys_the_Swiss_Dairy_Cow" title="Gladys the Swiss Dairy Cow">Gladys</a> as a Chocolate <a href="/wiki/Easter_Bunny" title="Easter Bunny">Easter Bunny</a> with Easter eggs</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Ovos_de_P%C3%A1scoa_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Brazilian Ovos de Páscoa for sale in a supermarket"><noscript><img alt="Brazilian Ovos de Páscoa for sale in a supermarket" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Ovos_de_P%C3%A1scoa_2.jpg/120px-Ovos_de_P%C3%A1scoa_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="68" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2252"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 68px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Ovos_de_P%C3%A1scoa_2.jpg/120px-Ovos_de_P%C3%A1scoa_2.jpg" data-alt="Brazilian Ovos de Páscoa for sale in a supermarket" data-width="120" data-height="68" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Ovos_de_P%C3%A1scoa_2.jpg/180px-Ovos_de_P%C3%A1scoa_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Ovos_de_P%C3%A1scoa_2.jpg/240px-Ovos_de_P%C3%A1scoa_2.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Brazilian Ovos de Páscoa for sale in a supermarket</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marzipan_eggs">Marzipan eggs</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Marzipan eggs" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In the Indian state of Goa, the <a href="/wiki/Marzipan#Asia" title="Marzipan">Goan Catholic version of marzipan</a> is used to make easter eggs. In the Philippines, mazapán de pili (Spanish for "pili marzipan") is made from pili nuts. <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Marzipan_easter_eggs.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Marzipan easter eggs"><noscript><img alt="Marzipan easter eggs" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Marzipan_easter_eggs.jpg/120px-Marzipan_easter_eggs.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="736" data-file-height="552"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 90px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Marzipan_easter_eggs.jpg/120px-Marzipan_easter_eggs.jpg" data-alt="Marzipan easter eggs" data-width="120" data-height="90" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Marzipan_easter_eggs.jpg/180px-Marzipan_easter_eggs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Marzipan_easter_eggs.jpg/240px-Marzipan_easter_eggs.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Marzipan easter eggs</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Artificial_eggs">Artificial eggs</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Artificial eggs" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The <a href="/wiki/Faberge_eggs" class="mw-redirect" title="Faberge eggs">jewelled Easter eggs</a> made by the Fabergé firm for the two last Russian <a href="/wiki/Tsars" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsars">Tsars</a> are regarded as masterpieces of decorative arts. Most of these creations themselves contained hidden surprises such as clock-work birds, or miniature ships. In Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, and other <a href="/wiki/Central_Europe" title="Central Europe">Central European</a> countries' <a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">folk traditions</a>, Easter eggs are carved from wood and hand-painted, and making artificial eggs out of <a href="/wiki/Porcelain" title="Porcelain">porcelain</a> for ladies is common.<a href="#cite_note-Anderson-58">[58]</a>: 45 Easter eggs are frequently depicted in sculpture, including a 8-metre (27 ft) sculpture of a pysanka standing in <a href="/wiki/Vegreville" title="Vegreville">Vegreville</a>, Alberta. <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Faberg%C3%A9_egg_Rome_05.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Fabergé egg"><noscript><img alt="Fabergé egg" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Faberg%C3%A9_egg_Rome_05.JPG/120px-Faberg%C3%A9_egg_Rome_05.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="97" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2583" data-file-height="2095"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 97px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Faberg%C3%A9_egg_Rome_05.JPG/120px-Faberg%C3%A9_egg_Rome_05.JPG" data-alt="Fabergé egg" data-width="120" data-height="97" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Faberg%C3%A9_egg_Rome_05.JPG/180px-Faberg%C3%A9_egg_Rome_05.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Faberg%C3%A9_egg_Rome_05.JPG/240px-Faberg%C3%A9_egg_Rome_05.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Faberg%C3%A9_egg" title="Fabergé egg">Fabergé egg</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Huevo_de_chocolate_en_Bariloche_(Argentina).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Giant easter egg, Bariloche, Argentina"><noscript><img alt="Giant easter egg, Bariloche, Argentina" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Huevo_de_chocolate_en_Bariloche_%28Argentina%29.jpg/96px-Huevo_de_chocolate_en_Bariloche_%28Argentina%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="96" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1148" data-file-height="1427"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 96px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Huevo_de_chocolate_en_Bariloche_%28Argentina%29.jpg/96px-Huevo_de_chocolate_en_Bariloche_%28Argentina%29.jpg" data-alt="Giant easter egg, Bariloche, Argentina" data-width="96" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Huevo_de_chocolate_en_Bariloche_%28Argentina%29.jpg/145px-Huevo_de_chocolate_en_Bariloche_%28Argentina%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Huevo_de_chocolate_en_Bariloche_%28Argentina%29.jpg/193px-Huevo_de_chocolate_en_Bariloche_%28Argentina%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Giant easter egg, <a href="/wiki/Bariloche" title="Bariloche">Bariloche</a>, Argentina</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Vegreville_Pysanka.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Giant pysanka from Vegreville, Alberta, Canada"><noscript><img alt="Giant pysanka from Vegreville, Alberta, Canada" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Vegreville_Pysanka.jpg/90px-Vegreville_Pysanka.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1728" data-file-height="2304"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 90px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Vegreville_Pysanka.jpg/90px-Vegreville_Pysanka.jpg" data-alt="Giant pysanka from Vegreville, Alberta, Canada" data-width="90" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Vegreville_Pysanka.jpg/135px-Vegreville_Pysanka.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Vegreville_Pysanka.jpg/180px-Vegreville_Pysanka.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Giant pysanka from <a href="/wiki/Vegreville" title="Vegreville">Vegreville</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta">Alberta</a>, Canada</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Zagrebacko_uskrsnje_jaje_4_050409.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Giant easter egg or pisanica in Zagreb, Croatia"><noscript><img alt="Giant easter egg or pisanica in Zagreb, Croatia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Zagrebacko_uskrsnje_jaje_4_050409.jpg/82px-Zagrebacko_uskrsnje_jaje_4_050409.jpg" decoding="async" width="82" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="752" data-file-height="1100"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 82px;height: 120px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Zagrebacko_uskrsnje_jaje_4_050409.jpg/82px-Zagrebacko_uskrsnje_jaje_4_050409.jpg" data-alt="Giant easter egg or pisanica in Zagreb, Croatia" data-width="82" data-height="120" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Zagrebacko_uskrsnje_jaje_4_050409.jpg/123px-Zagrebacko_uskrsnje_jaje_4_050409.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Zagrebacko_uskrsnje_jaje_4_050409.jpg/164px-Zagrebacko_uskrsnje_jaje_4_050409.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Giant easter egg or pisanica in <a href="/wiki/Zagreb" title="Zagreb">Zagreb</a>, Croatia</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Easter_egg_sculpture_in_Gogolin_2014_P01.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Easter egg sculpture in Gogolin, Poland"><noscript><img alt="Easter egg sculpture in Gogolin, Poland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Easter_egg_sculpture_in_Gogolin_2014_P01.JPG/120px-Easter_egg_sculpture_in_Gogolin_2014_P01.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 80px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Easter_egg_sculpture_in_Gogolin_2014_P01.JPG/120px-Easter_egg_sculpture_in_Gogolin_2014_P01.JPG" data-alt="Easter egg sculpture in Gogolin, Poland" data-width="120" data-height="80" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Easter_egg_sculpture_in_Gogolin_2014_P01.JPG/180px-Easter_egg_sculpture_in_Gogolin_2014_P01.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Easter_egg_sculpture_in_Gogolin_2014_P01.JPG/240px-Easter_egg_sculpture_in_Gogolin_2014_P01.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Easter egg sculpture in <a href="/wiki/Gogolin" title="Gogolin">Gogolin</a>, Poland</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Oul_uria%C5%9F_din_Suceava2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Giant easter egg in Suceava, Romania"><noscript><img alt="Giant easter egg in Suceava, Romania" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Oul_uria%C5%9F_din_Suceava2.jpg/120px-Oul_uria%C5%9F_din_Suceava2.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 120px;height: 90px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Oul_uria%C5%9F_din_Suceava2.jpg/120px-Oul_uria%C5%9F_din_Suceava2.jpg" data-alt="Giant easter egg in Suceava, Romania" data-width="120" data-height="90" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Oul_uria%C5%9F_din_Suceava2.jpg/180px-Oul_uria%C5%9F_din_Suceava2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Oul_uria%C5%9F_din_Suceava2.jpg/240px-Oul_uria%C5%9F_din_Suceava2.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a></div> <div class="gallerytext">Giant easter egg in <a href="/wiki/Suceava" title="Suceava">Suceava</a>, Romania</div> </li> </ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Legends">Legends</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Legends" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vasnetsov_Maria_Magdalene.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Vasnetsov_Maria_Magdalene.JPG/170px-Vasnetsov_Maria_Magdalene.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1600"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 170px;height: 227px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Vasnetsov_Maria_Magdalene.JPG/170px-Vasnetsov_Maria_Magdalene.JPG" data-width="170" data-height="227" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Vasnetsov_Maria_Magdalene.JPG/255px-Vasnetsov_Maria_Magdalene.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Vasnetsov_Maria_Magdalene.JPG/340px-Vasnetsov_Maria_Magdalene.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Maria_Magdalene" class="mw-redirect" title="Maria Magdalene">Maria Magdalene</a>, 1899 by <a href="/wiki/Viktor_M._Vasnetsov" class="mw-redirect" title="Viktor M. Vasnetsov">Viktor M. Vasnetsov</a>, depicted as one of the <a href="/wiki/Myrrhbearers" title="Myrrhbearers">Myrrhbearers</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Christian_traditions">Christian traditions</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Christian traditions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, among followers of <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Christianity" title="Eastern Christianity">Eastern Christianity</a> the <a href="/wiki/Legend" title="Legend">legend</a> says that <a href="/wiki/Mary_Magdalene" title="Mary Magdalene">Mary Magdalene</a> was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned bright red when she saw the risen Christ.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> A different, but not necessarily conflicting legend concerns Mary Magdalene's efforts to spread the <a href="/wiki/Gospel" title="Gospel">Gospel</a>. According to this tradition, after the <a href="/wiki/Ascension_of_Jesus" title="Ascension of Jesus">Ascension of Jesus</a>, Mary went to the Emperor of Rome and greeted him with "Christ has risen," whereupon he pointed to an egg on his table and stated, "Christ has no more risen than that egg is red." After making this statement it is said the egg immediately turned blood red.<a href="#cite_note-Mary-60">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> Red Easter eggs, known as kokkina avga (κόκκινα αυγά) in Greece and krashanki in <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>, are an <a href="/wiki/Easter" title="Easter">Easter</a> tradition and a distinct type of Easter egg prepared by various <a href="/wiki/Orthodoxy#Christianity" title="Orthodoxy">Orthodox Christian</a> peoples.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> The red eggs are part of <a href="/wiki/Easter_custom" class="mw-redirect" title="Easter custom">Easter custom</a> in many areas and often accompany other traditional <a href="/wiki/Easter_food" title="Easter food">Easter foods</a>. <a href="/wiki/Passover" title="Passover">Passover</a> <a href="/wiki/Haminados" title="Haminados">haminados</a> are prepared with similar methods. Dark red eggs are a tradition in Greece and represent the blood of <a href="/wiki/Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Christ">Christ</a> shed on the cross.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> The practice dates to the early Christian church in <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-History-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-Itihaas-9">[9]</a> In Greece, superstitions of the past included the custom of placing the first-dyed red egg at the home's <a href="/wiki/Iconostasis" title="Iconostasis">iconostasis</a> (place where icons are displayed) to ward off evil. The heads and backs of small lambs were also marked with the red dye to protect them. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Parallels_in_other_faiths">Parallels in other faiths</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Parallels in other faiths" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Noruz1387.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Noruz1387.jpg/170px-Noruz1387.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3056" data-file-height="2296"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 170px;height: 128px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Noruz1387.jpg/170px-Noruz1387.jpg" data-width="170" data-height="128" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Noruz1387.jpg/255px-Noruz1387.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Noruz1387.jpg/340px-Noruz1387.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Eggs at the Iranian <a href="/wiki/Nowruz" title="Nowruz">Nowruz</a></figcaption></figure> The egg is widely used as a symbol of the start of new life, just as new life emerges from an egg when the chick hatches out.<a href="#cite_note-fertility-2">[2]</a> Painted eggs are used at the Iranian spring holidays, the <a href="/wiki/Nowruz" title="Nowruz">Nowruz</a> that marks the first day of <a href="/wiki/Spring_(season)" title="Spring (season)">spring</a> or <a href="/wiki/Equinox" title="Equinox">Equinox</a>, and the beginning of the year in the <a href="/wiki/Persian_calendar" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian calendar">Persian calendar</a>. It is celebrated on the day of the astronomical <a href="/wiki/Northward_equinox" class="mw-redirect" title="Northward equinox">Northward equinox</a>, which usually occurs on March 21 or the previous/following day depending on where it is observed. The painted eggs symbolize fertility and are displayed on the Nowruz table, called <a href="/wiki/Haft-Seen" class="mw-redirect" title="Haft-Seen">Haft-Seen</a> together with various other symbolic objects. There are sometimes one egg for each member of the family. The ancient <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrians" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoroastrians">Zoroastrians</a> painted eggs for Nowruz, their New Year celebration, which falls on the <a href="/wiki/Spring_equinox_(Northern_Hemisphere)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spring equinox (Northern Hemisphere)">Spring equinox</a>. The tradition continues among Persians of <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islamic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrian" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoroastrian">Zoroastrian</a>, and other faiths today.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> The Nowruz tradition has existed for at least 2,500 years. The sculptures on the walls of <a href="/wiki/Persepolis" title="Persepolis">Persepolis</a> show people carrying eggs for Nowruz to the king.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The <a href="/wiki/Neopagan" class="mw-redirect" title="Neopagan">Neopagan</a> holiday of <a href="/wiki/Wheel_of_the_Year#Spring_Equinox_(Ostara)" title="Wheel of the Year">Ostara</a> occurs at roughly the same time as Easter. While it is often claimed that the use of painted eggs is an ancient, pre-Christian component of the celebration of Ostara, there are no historical accounts that ancient celebrations included this practice, apart from the <a href="/wiki/Old_High_German_lullaby" title="Old High German lullaby">Old High German lullaby</a> which is believed by most to be a modern fabrication. Rather, the use of painted eggs has been adopted under the assumption that it might be a pre-Christian survival. In fact, modern scholarship has been unable to trace any association between eggs and a supposed goddess named Ostara before the 19th century, when early folklorists began to speculate about the possibility.<a href="#cite_note-Winick2016-69">[69]</a> There are good grounds for the association between <a href="/wiki/Hare" title="Hare">hares</a> (later termed <a href="/wiki/Easter_bunny" class="mw-redirect" title="Easter bunny">Easter bunnies</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Bird_egg" title="Bird egg">bird eggs</a>, through folklore confusion between hares' forms (where they raise their young) and <a href="/wiki/Plover" title="Plover">plovers</a>' nests.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>, a hard-boiled egg is an element of the <a href="/wiki/Passover_Seder" title="Passover Seder">Passover Seder</a>, representing festival sacrifice. The children's game of hunting for the <a href="/wiki/Afikomen" class="mw-redirect" title="Afikomen">afikomen</a> (a half-piece of matzo) has similarities to the Easter egg hunt tradition, by which the child who finds the hidden matzah will be awarded a prize. In other homes, the children hide the afikoman and a parent must look for it; when the parents give up, the children demand a prize for revealing its location. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Balut_(egg)" class="mw-redirect" title="Balut (egg)">Balut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Century_egg" title="Century egg">Century egg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_red_eggs" title="Chinese red eggs">Chinese red eggs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cascar%C3%B3n" title="Cascarón">Cascarón</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Easter_Bilby" title="Easter Bilby">Easter Bilby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egg_decorating_in_Slavic_culture" title="Egg decorating in Slavic culture">Egg decorating in Slavic culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Festum_Ovorum" title="Festum Ovorum">Festum Ovorum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kinder_Surprise" title="Kinder Surprise">Kinder Surprise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_egg_dishes" title="List of egg dishes">List of egg dishes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_foods_with_religious_symbolism" title="List of foods with religious symbolism">List of foods with religious symbolism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus">Resurrection of Jesus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salted_duck_egg" title="Salted duck egg">Salted duck egg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sham_El_Nessim" class="mw-redirect" title="Sham El Nessim">Sham El Nessim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smoked_egg" title="Smoked egg">Smoked egg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tea_egg" title="Tea egg">Tea egg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vegreville_egg" title="Vegreville egg">Vegreville egg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washi_eggs" class="mw-redirect" title="Washi eggs">Washi eggs</a></li></ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="References">References</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Easter_egg&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button 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.cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.holycrossonline.org/our_parish/lenten_resource_center/articles/legend-of-paschal-eggs.pdf">"The Legend of Paschal Eggs (Holy Cross Antiochian Orthodox Church)"</a> (PDF). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150412003658/http://www.holycrossonline.org/our_parish/lenten_resource_center/articles/legend-of-paschal-eggs.pdf">Archived</a> (PDF) from the original on 2015-04-12. Retrieved 2013-11-26.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Legend+of+Paschal+Eggs+%28Holy+Cross+Antiochian+Orthodox+Church%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.holycrossonline.org%2Four_parish%2Flenten_resource_center%2Farticles%2Flegend-of-paschal-eggs.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-fertility-2">^ <a href="#cite_ref-fertility_2-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-fertility_2-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDavid_Leeming2005" class="citation book cs1">David Leeming (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000leem">The Oxford Companion to World Mythology</a>. <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000leem/page/111">111</a>. Retrieved 10 March 2013. <q>For many, Easter is synonymous with fertility symbols such as the Easter Rabbit, Easter Eggs, and the Easter lily.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Oxford+Companion+to+World+Mythology&rft.pages=111&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2005&rft.au=David+Leeming&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Foxfordcompaniont0000leem&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Meaning-3">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Meaning_3-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Meaning_3-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Meaning_3-2">c</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAnne_Jordan2000" class="citation book cs1">Anne Jordan (5 April 2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=mzKVPZthGHUC&q=easter+egg+Christian&pg=PA51">Christianity</a>. <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Thornes" title="Nelson Thornes">Nelson Thornes</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780748753208" title="Special:BookSources/9780748753208"><bdi>9780748753208</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230409152349/https://books.google.com/books?id=mzKVPZthGHUC&q=easter+egg+Christian&pg=PA51">Archived</a> from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 7 April 2012. <q>Easter eggs are used as a Christian symbol to represent the empty tomb. The outside of the egg looks dead but inside there is new life, which is going to break out. The Easter egg is a reminder that Jesus will rise from His tomb and bring new life. Orthodox Christians dye boiled eggs red to make red Easter eggs that represent the blood of Christ shed for the sins of the world.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Christianity&rft.pub=Nelson+Thornes&rft.date=2000-04-05&rft.isbn=9780748753208&rft.au=Anne+Jordan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DmzKVPZthGHUC%26q%3Deaster%2Begg%2BChristian%26pg%3DPA51&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Symbolism-4">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Symbolism_4-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Symbolism_4-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hPMVAAAAYAAJ&q=easter+egg+empty+tomb&pg=PA119">The Guardian, Volume 29</a>. H. Harbaugh. 1878. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230409152350/https://books.google.com/books?id=hPMVAAAAYAAJ&q=easter+egg+empty+tomb&pg=PA119">Archived</a> from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 7 April 2012. <q>Just so, on that first Easter morning, Jesus came to life and walked out of the tomb, and left it, as it were, an empty shell. Just so, too, when the Christian dies, the body is left in the grave, an empty shell, but the soul takes wings and flies away to be with God. Thus you see that though an egg seems to be as dead as a stone, yet it really has life in it; and also it is like Christ's dead body, which was raised to life again. This is the reason we use eggs on Easter. (In days past some used to color the eggs red, so as to show the kind of death by which Christ died,-a bloody death.)</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Guardian%2C+Volume+29&rft.pub=H.+Harbaugh&rft.date=1878&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DhPMVAAAAYAAJ%26q%3Deaster%2Begg%2Bempty%2Btomb%26pg%3DPA119&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGordon_Geddes,_Jane_Griffiths2002" class="citation book cs1">Gordon Geddes, Jane Griffiths (22 January 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Wn-38NunUnAC&q=easter+egg+Christian&pg=PT120">Christian belief and practice</a>. <a href="/wiki/Heinemann_(publisher)" title="Heinemann (publisher)">Heinemann</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780435306915" title="Special:BookSources/9780435306915"><bdi>9780435306915</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230409152350/https://books.google.com/books?id=Wn-38NunUnAC&q=easter+egg+Christian&pg=PT120">Archived</a> from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 7 April 2012. <q>Red eggs are given to Orthodox Christians after the Easter Liturgy. They crack their eggs against each other's. The cracking of the eggs symbolizes a wish to break away from the bonds of sin and misery and enter the new life issuing from Christ's resurrection.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Christian+belief+and+practice&rft.pub=Heinemann&rft.date=2002-01-22&rft.isbn=9780435306915&rft.au=Gordon+Geddes%2C+Jane+Griffiths&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DWn-38NunUnAC%26q%3Deaster%2Begg%2BChristian%26pg%3DPT120&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ellis1877-6">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Ellis1877_6-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ellis1877_6-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ellis1877_6-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ellis1877_6-3">d</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHenry_Ellis1877" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Ellis_(librarian)" title="Henry Ellis (librarian)">Henry Ellis</a> (1877). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/observationsonp02unkngoog">Popular antiquities of Great Britain</a>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/observationsonp02unkngoog/page/n119">90</a>. Retrieved 26 March 2016. <q><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hyde" title="Thomas Hyde">Hyde</a>, in his Oriental Sports (1694), tells us one with eggs among the Christians of Mesopotamia on Easter Day and forty days afterwards, during which time their children buy themselves as many eggs as they can, stain them with a red colour in memory of the blood of Christ, shed as at that time of his crucifixion. Some tinge them with green and yellow.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Popular+antiquities+of+Great+Britain&rft.pages=90&rft.date=1877&rft.au=Henry+Ellis&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fobservationsonp02unkngoog&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Thompson2013-7">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Thompson2013_7-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Thompson2013_7-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Thompson2013_7-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Thompson2013_7-3">d</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThompson2013" class="citation book cs1">Thompson, Kenneth (21 August 2013). Culture & Progress: Early Sociology of Culture, Volume 8. <a href="/wiki/Routledge" title="Routledge">Routledge</a>. p. 138. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781136479403" title="Special:BookSources/9781136479403"><bdi>9781136479403</bdi></a>. <q>In Mesopotamia children secured during the 40-day period following Easter day as many eggs as possible and dyed them red, "in memory of the blood of Christ shed at that time of his Crucifixion"--a rationalization. Dyed eggs were sold in the market, green and yellow being favorite colors. The use of eggs at Easter seems to have come from Persia into the Greek Christian Churches of Mesopotamia, thence to Russia and Siberia through the medium of Orthodox Christianity. From the Greek Church the custom was adopted by either the Roman Catholics or the Protestants and then spread through Europe.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Culture+%26+Progress%3A+Early+Sociology+of+Culture%2C+Volume+8&rft.pages=138&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2013-08-21&rft.isbn=9781136479403&rft.aulast=Thompson&rft.aufirst=Kenneth&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-History-8">^ <a href="#cite_ref-History_8-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-History_8-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-History_8-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-History_8-3">d</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TinZAAAAMAAJ&q=easter+egg+Christians+Mesopotamia&pg=PA558">Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 5</a>. T.B. Noonan. 1881. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230409152351/https://books.google.com/books?id=TinZAAAAMAAJ&q=easter+egg+Christians+Mesopotamia&pg=PA558">Archived</a> from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 7 April 2012. <q>The early Christians of Mesopotamia had the custom of dyeing and decorating eggs at Easter. They were stained red, in memory of the blood of Christ, shed at His crucifixion. The Church adopted the custom, and regarded the eggs as the emblem of the resurrection, as is evinced by the benediction of Pope Paul V., about 1610, which reads thus: "Bless, O Lord! we beseech thee, this thy creature of eggs, that it may become a wholesome sustenance to thy faithful servants, eating it in thankfulness to thee on account of the resurrection of the Lord." Thus the custom has come down from ages lost in antiquity.)</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Donahoe%27s+Magazine%2C+Volume+5&rft.pub=T.B.+Noonan&rft.date=1881&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DTinZAAAAMAAJ%26q%3Deaster%2Begg%2BChristians%2BMesopotamia%26pg%3DPA558&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Itihaas-9">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Itihaas_9-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Itihaas_9-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Itihaas_9-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Itihaas_9-3">d</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVicki_K._Black2004" class="citation book cs1">Vicki K. Black (1 July 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CRvzTM0kev4C&q=In+many+countries+the+name+of+the+Christian+feast+we+call+Easter&pg=PA96">Welcome to the Church Year: An Introduction to the Seasons of the Episcopal Church</a>. Church Publishing, Inc. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780819219664" title="Special:BookSources/9780819219664"><bdi>9780819219664</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230409152351/https://books.google.com/books?id=CRvzTM0kev4C&q=In+many+countries+the+name+of+the+Christian+feast+we+call+Easter&pg=PA96">Archived</a> from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2020. <q>The Christians of this region in Mesopotamia were probably the first to connect the decorating of eggs with the feast of the resurrection of Christ, and by the Middle Ages this practice was so widespread that in some places Easter Day was called Egg Sunday. In parts of Europe, the eggs were dyed red and were then cracked together when people exchanged Easter greetings. Many congregations today continue to have Easter egg hunts for the children after services on Easter Day.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Welcome+to+the+Church+Year%3A+An+Introduction+to+the+Seasons+of+the+Episcopal+Church&rft.pub=Church+Publishing%2C+Inc.&rft.date=2004-07-01&rft.isbn=9780819219664&rft.au=Vicki+K.+Black&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DCRvzTM0kev4C%26q%3DIn%2Bmany%2Bcountries%2Bthe%2Bname%2Bof%2Bthe%2BChristian%2Bfeast%2Bwe%2Bcall%2BEaster%26pg%3DPA96&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Gainsford2018-10">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Gainsford2018_10-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Gainsford2018_10-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Gainsford2018_10-2">c</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGainsford2018" class="citation web cs1">Gainsford, Peter (26 March 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2018/03/easter-and-paganism-2.html">"Easter and paganism. Part 2"</a>. Kiwi Hellenist. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191128050656/http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2018/03/easter-and-paganism-2.html">Archived</a> from the original on 28 November 2019. 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Scientific American. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180328170422/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/beyond-ishtar-the-tradition-of-eggs-at-easter/">Archived</a> from the original on 28 March 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2018.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Scientific+American&rft.atitle=Beyond+Ishtar%3A+The+Tradition+of+Eggs+at+Easter&rft.aulast=D%27Costa&rft.aufirst=Krystal&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.scientificamerican.com%2Fanthropology-in-practice%2Fbeyond-ishtar-the-tradition-of-eggs-at-easter%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-pre-Christian-12"><a href="#cite_ref-pre-Christian_12-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNeil_R._Grobman1981" class="citation book cs1">Neil R. Grobman (1981). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=S5BZAAAAYAAJ&q=decorating+eggs+pre-Christian">Wycinanki and pysanky: forms of religious and ethnic folk art from the Delaware Valley</a>. University of Pittsburgh. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230409152406/https://books.google.com/books?id=S5BZAAAAYAAJ&q=decorating+eggs+pre-Christian">Archived</a> from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 18 April 2014. <q>During the spring cycle of festivals, ancient pre-Christian peoples used decorated eggs to welcome the sun and to help ensure the fertility of the fields, river ...</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Wycinanki+and+pysanky%3A+forms+of+religious+and+ethnic+folk+art+from+the+Delaware+Valley&rft.pub=University+of+Pittsburgh&rft.date=1981&rft.au=Neil+R.+Grobman&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DS5BZAAAAYAAJ%26q%3Ddecorating%2Beggs%2Bpre-Christian&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/egg-cetera-6-hunting-for-the-world%E2%80%99s-oldest-decorated-eggs">"Egg Cetera #6: Hunting for the world's oldest decorated eggs | University of Cambridge"</a>. Cam.ac.uk. 2012-04-10. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130928033503/http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/egg-cetera-6-hunting-for-the-world%E2%80%99s-oldest-decorated-eggs">Archived</a> from the original on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2013-03-31.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Egg+Cetera+%236%3A+Hunting+for+the+world%27s+oldest+decorated+eggs+%26%23124%3B+University+of+Cambridge&rft.pub=Cam.ac.uk&rft.date=2012-04-10&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cam.ac.uk%2Fresearch%2Fnews%2Fegg-cetera-6-hunting-for-the-world%25E2%2580%2599s-oldest-decorated-eggs&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a> Treasures from Royal Tombs of Ur By Richard L. Zettler, Lee Horne, Donald P. Hansen, Holly Pittman 1998 pgs 70-72 </li> <li id="cite_note-Green-15"><a href="#cite_ref-Green_15-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreen2006" class="citation journal cs1">Green, Nile (2006). "Ostrich Eggs and Peacock feathers: Sacred Objects as Cultural Exchange between Christianity and Islam". Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean. 18 (1). <q>This article uses the wide dispersal of ostrich eggs and peacock feathers among the different cultural contexts of the Mediterranean – and beyond into the Indian Ocean world – to explore the nature and limits of cultural inheritance and exchange between Christianity and Islam. These avian materials previously possessed symbolic meaning and material value as early as the pre-dynastic period in Egypt, as well as amid the early cultures of Mesopotamia and Crete. The main early cultural associations of the eggs and feathers were with death/resurrection and kingship respectively, a symbolism that was passed on into early Christian and Muslim usage. Mercantile, religious and political links across the premodern Mediterranean meant that these items found parallel employment all around the Mediterranean littoral, and beyond it, in Arabia, South Asia and Africa.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Al-Masaq%3A+Journal+of+the+Medieval+Mediterranean&rft.atitle=Ostrich+Eggs+and+Peacock+feathers%3A+Sacred+Objects+as+Cultural+Exchange+between+Christianity+and+Islam&rft.volume=18&rft.issue=1&rft.date=2006&rft.aulast=Green&rft.aufirst=Nile&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-MurrayRea2008-16"><a href="#cite_ref-MurrayRea2008_16-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMurrayRea2008" class="citation book cs1">Murray, Michael J.; Rea, Michael C. (20 March 2008). An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a>. p. 68. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-139-46965-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-139-46965-4"><bdi>978-1-139-46965-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=An+Introduction+to+the+Philosophy+of+Religion&rft.pages=68&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2008-03-20&rft.isbn=978-1-139-46965-4&rft.aulast=Murray&rft.aufirst=Michael+J.&rft.au=Rea%2C+Michael+C.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Williams2016-17"><a href="#cite_ref-Williams2016_17-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliams2016" class="citation book cs1">Williams, Victoria (21 November 2016). Celebrating Life Customs around the World. <a href="/wiki/ABC-CLIO" class="mw-redirect" title="ABC-CLIO">ABC-CLIO</a>. p. 2. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781440836596" title="Special:BookSources/9781440836596"><bdi>9781440836596</bdi></a>. <q>The history of the Easter egg can be traced back to the time of the advent of Christianity in Mesopotamia (around the first to the third century), when people use to stain eggs red as a reminder of the blood spilled by Christ during the Crucifixion. In time, the Christian church in general adopted this custom with the eggs considered to be a symbol of both Christ's death and Resurrection. Moreover, in the earliest days of Christianity Easter eggs were considered symbolic of the tomb in which Jesus's corpse was laid after the Crucifixion for eggs, as a near universal symbol of fertility and life, were like Jesus's tomb, something from which new life came forth.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Celebrating+Life+Customs+around+the+World&rft.pages=2&rft.pub=ABC-CLIO&rft.date=2016-11-21&rft.isbn=9781440836596&rft.aulast=Williams&rft.aufirst=Victoria&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-Shoda2014-18"><a href="#cite_ref-Shoda2014_18-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShoda2014" class="citation book cs1">Shoda, Richard W. (2014). Saint Alphonsus: Capuchins, Closures, and Continuity (1956-2011). Dorrance Publishing. p. 128. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4349-2948-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4349-2948-8"><bdi>978-1-4349-2948-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Saint+Alphonsus%3A+Capuchins%2C+Closures%2C+and+Continuity+%281956-2011%29&rft.pages=128&rft.pub=Dorrance+Publishing&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-1-4349-2948-8&rft.aulast=Shoda&rft.aufirst=Richard+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAllen2016" class="citation news cs1">Allen, Emily (25 December 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160224015808/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/12170383/When-is-Easter-2016-What-are-the-dates-for-Good-Friday-Easter-Sunday-and-Easter-Monday.html">"When is Easter 2016? What are the dates for Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/12170383/When-is-Easter-2016-What-are-the-dates-for-Good-Friday-Easter-Sunday-and-Easter-Monday.html">the original</a> on 24 February 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016. <q>Eggs illustrate new life, just as Jesus began his new life on East Sunday after the miracle of his resurrection. When eggs are cracked open they are said to symbolise an empty tomb.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Daily+Telegraph&rft.atitle=When+is+Easter+2016%3F+What+are+the+dates+for+Good+Friday%2C+Easter+Sunday+and+Easter+Monday&rft.date=2016-12-25&rft.aulast=Allen&rft.aufirst=Emily&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Freligion%2F12170383%2FWhen-is-Easter-2016-What-are-the-dates-for-Good-Friday-Easter-Sunday-and-Easter-Monday.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEaster+egg" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWagstaff" class="citation web cs1">Wagstaff, Natalie. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141226123024/http://www.dominiquesvillas.co.uk/en/blog/index.cfm/kalo-paska-happy-easter">"Kalo Paska - Happy Easter"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dominiquesvillas.co.uk/en/blog/index.cfm/kalo-paska-happy-easter">the original</a> on 2014-12-26. 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NOLA.com. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221218102232/https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/eat-drink/todays-recipe-from-our-files-greek-easter-bread-tsoueki/article_847cc875-8028-5b32-a1eb-f57c036f0f3e.html">Archived</a> from the original on 18 December 2022. 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Historic UK. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210123012457/https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Pace-Egging/">Archived</a> from the original on 2021-01-23. 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York Press. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210404095238/https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/18371517.history-behind-easter-pace-eggs-yorks-castle-museum/">Archived</a> from the original on 2021-04-04. 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BF%D1%96%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Велікодная пісанка – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Велікодная пісанка" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D1%8F%D0%B9%D1%86%D0%B5" title="Великденско яйце – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Великденско яйце" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ou_de_Pasqua" title="Ou de Pasqua – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ou de Pasqua" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraslice" title="Kraslice – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Kraslice" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A5ske%C3%A6g" title="Påskeæg – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Påskeæg" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osterei" title="Osterei – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Osterei" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lihav%C3%B5ttemuna" title="Lihavõttemuna – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Lihavõttemuna" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%AC_%CE%B1%CE%B2%CE%B3%CE%AC" title="Πασχαλινά αβγά – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Πασχαλινά αβγά" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cv_ed_P%C3%A0sqva" title="Ōv ed Pàsqva – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="Ōv ed Pàsqva" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Emiliàn e rumagnòl</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huevo_de_Pascua" title="Huevo de Pascua – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Huevo de Pascua" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paska_ovo" title="Paska ovo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Paska ovo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazko_arrautza" title="Pazko arrautza – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Pazko arrautza" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%AE%D9%85%E2%80%8C%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%BA_%D8%B9%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%BE%D8%A7%DA%A9" title="تخم‌مرغ عید پاک – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="تخم‌مرغ عید پاک" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1skaregg" title="Páskaregg – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Páskaregg" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Føroyskt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%92uf_de_P%C3%A2ques" title="Œuf de Pâques – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Œuf de Pâques" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-inh mw-list-item"><a href="https://inh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D1%84%D1%83%D1%8A" title="Пасхан фуъ – Ingush" lang="inh" hreflang="inh" data-title="Пасхан фуъ" data-language-autonym="ГӀалгӀай" data-language-local-name="Ingush" class="interlanguage-link-target">ГӀалгӀай</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B6%80%ED%99%9C%EC%A0%88_%EB%8B%AC%EA%B1%80" title="부활절 달걀 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="부활절 달걀" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B6%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%AF%D5%AB_%D5%B1%D5%B8%D6%82" title="Զատկի ձու – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Զատկի ձու" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisanica" title="Pisanica – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Pisanica" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paskala_ovo" title="Paskala ovo – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Paskala ovo" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telur_Paskah" title="Telur Paskah – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Telur Paskah" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1skaegg" title="Páskaegg – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Páskaegg" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uovo_di_Pasqua" title="Uovo di Pasqua – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Uovo di Pasqua" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%AA_%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%97%D7%90" title="ביצת פסחא – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ביצת פסחא" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endhog_Paskah" title="Endhog Paskah – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Endhog Paskah" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Jawa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%88%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9F%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%8E%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%8D" title="ಈಸ್ಟರ್ ಎಗ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಈಸ್ಟರ್ ಎಗ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovum_paschale" title="Ovum paschale – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Ovum paschale" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieldienu_ola" title="Lieldienu ola – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Lieldienu ola" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouschteree" title="Ouschteree – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Ouschteree" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velyk%C5%B3_margu%C4%8Diai" title="Velykų margučiai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Velykų margučiai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BAsv%C3%A9ti_toj%C3%A1s" title="Húsvéti tojás – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Húsvéti tojás" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D1%98%D0%B0%D1%98%D1%86%D0%B0" title="Велигденски јајца – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Велигденски јајца" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%88%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%BC_%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F" title="ഈസ്റ്റർ മുട്ട – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഈസ്റ്റർ മുട്ട" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B6_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B5%D8%AD" title="بيض الفصح – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="بيض الفصح" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telur_Easter" title="Telur Easter – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Telur Easter" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paasei" title="Paasei – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Paasei" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A8%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0" title="イースターエッグ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="イースターエッグ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A5skeegg" title="Påskeegg – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Påskeegg" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A5skeegg" title="Påskeegg – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Påskeegg" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisanka" title="Pisanka – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Pisanka" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovo_de_P%C3%A1scoa" title="Ovo de Páscoa – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Ovo de Páscoa" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ou_de_Pa%C8%99ti" title="Ou de Paști – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Ou de Paști" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D1%8F%D0%B9%D1%86%D0%BE" title="Пасхальное яйцо – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Пасхальное яйцо" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veza_e_kuqe_e_Pashk%C3%ABs" title="Veza e kuqe e Pashkës – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Veza e kuqe e Pashkës" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Shqip</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg" title="Easter egg – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Easter egg" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraslica" title="Kraslica – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Kraslica" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirh" title="Pirh – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Pirh" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%88%D1%9A%D0%B0_%D1%98%D0%B0%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Ускршња јаја – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Ускршња јаја" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisanica" title="Pisanica – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Pisanica" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A4%C3%A4si%C3%A4ismuna" title="Pääsiäismuna – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Pääsiäismuna" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A5sk%C3%A4gg" title="Påskägg – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Påskägg" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%88%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%88" title="ஈஸ்டர் முட்டை – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="ஈஸ்டர் முட்டை" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%82%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C" title="ไข่อีสเตอร์ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ไข่อีสเตอร์" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paskalya_yumurtas%C4%B1" title="Paskalya yumurtası – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Paskalya yumurtası" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%94_%D1%8F%D0%B9%D1%86%D0%B5" title="Великоднє яйце – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Великоднє яйце" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" 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