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By: Anne Hund
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The Easter Bunny brings the Easter eggs?
Not in Sweden: The Easter chick is responsible for this there.
Customs and stories in other countries.
1 / 10In Down Under, the bilbys (also known as bandicoots), which are very popular in their homeland, play a special role at Easter: In many households in Australia there are bilbys made of chocolate - instead of chocolate Easter bunnies.
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2 / 10Typical Swedish Easter decorations: branches with colored felt.
By the way, in Sweden it's not the Easter bunny who hides the eggs, but the Easter chick does.
Before that, on Maundy Thursday, the children go from house to house dressed as “Påskäring” (Easter women) to collect sweets.
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3 / 10 In France, children also look for hidden sweets at Easter.
But it's not the Easter Bunny who brings the eggs there.
The search there traditionally begins when the church bells ring on Easter Sunday.
From Maundy Thursday to Holy Saturday the bells are silent - according to the stories, they travel to Rome during this time to receive the new blessing from the Pope.
On Easter Sunday the bells return - laden with sweets that fall onto the grass.
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4 / 10Touching pussy willows is said to bring good luck for the next year - which is why the branches are often distributed around Easter in England.
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5 / 10A popular game at Easter: In “Eiertütscha”, as in Switzerland in Bern on Easter Sunday, Easter eggs are hit together with the ends - the undamaged one wins.
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6 / 10In Italy, the whole family comes together at Easter.
Sweet yeast pastries in the shape of a dove are served as special specialties.
This Italian Easter cake (“Colomba pasquale”) is basically the spring counterpart to the winter panettone.
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7 / 10In many areas of Spain, a “Mona de Pascua” is traditionally served on Easter Monday.
According to one of the traditions, the cake is intended as an Easter gift to the godchild.
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8 / 10 In this country too, there are special traditions at Easter depending on the region.
In East Frisia, for example, “Eiertrullern” or “Eiertrüllen” (translated: egg rolling) is a common custom.
On the East Frisian Islands - especially on Norderney - locals and tourists traditionally play it in the dunes.
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9 / 10 Hard-boiled Easter eggs are not only eaten in this country, but are also often hidden on Easter Sunday.
There is another Easter custom in East Frisia: “egg rental” – this involves throwing the egg as far as possible without breaking it.
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10 / 10At Easter in this country, in addition to the Easter bunnies, there are also lots of home-baked Easter lambs - and of course as many colorful Easter eggs as possible for the children to snack on.
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Many beautiful countries are suitable for spending a vacation during the Easter holidays.
It's nice that many countries maintain their special traditions and customs around Easter.
You can find out more about this in the photo gallery.