Video: Easter Tradition Of Sprinkling Women

  • 25 Mar 2018 10:18 PM
Video: Easter Tradition Of Sprinkling Women
Each year a special Easter festival takes place in a small village located in north-eastern Hungary. Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987, for three days Hollókő becomes a tourist magnet, but visitors, beware: women may get wet.

It has nothing to do with the weather, because the tradition is for boys and men to chuck water over young women, for which the girls reward them with small gifts...

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