I would like to dedicate this blog to one special tradition, which is Czech Easter. You know, Easter is here related also to spring, it is actually the celebration of the spring and that is why we keep some traditions you might find very awkward or funny.
Let me start with the preparations. The girls must be ready, which means they need to colour and decorate the eggs for those, who will come around. Actually, it is not only about the eggs, they should be also ready with some sweets and for adults with "few drops" of hard liquer. We also bake Easter Lamb or Mazanec. To bake Easter Lamb might be not that easy because you must have special form for it and once it is baken you should literally pray, so that the result would satisfy you because after removing it carefully out of the form your Easter Lamb might turn to Headless Lamb!
We celebrate Easter on Easter Monday, this day is holiday here. Believe me that the morning is cruel for the girls/women. After waking up our beloved ones such as our sons, husbands pour the cold water on us. Those who are tough even take their "victims" into the bathroom to give them cold "awesome" shower. The boys/men have special decorated sticks made of little brenches called karabáč (karaba:ch) and they beat the legs and the butts of the girls/women with it.
Afterwards they use little bit of parfume and spray it on the girl's/women's neck. By the way when I was a little girl and since I am tall, one of my classmates almost hit my eyes with parfume! Anyway, back to the process of torturing. When the boys are done with it all very very fair part is about to come. Guess what? We (the girls and the women) have to give them something for it!!! So we give them coloured eggs, sweets we prepared and some glass of alcohol for adults. Then the boys/men can set for their Easter journey. They walk outside and visit relatives such as aunts, grannies, cousins or classmates, friends to apply this what I have described above on them. When you look from the window, you just can see the groups of the boys with the plastic bags full of the eggs and sweets, holding their karabáč and walking around! I have to admit that this tradition is more alive in the villages, where people also wear special costumes and its atmosphere is much more better. So let me post one cute video (don't want to post worse ones to scare you), so that you would be able to picturize it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZpbzmitXXU
By the way, I forgot to mention the most important thing! What is the purpose of this tradition? Well, according to it, we - the girls/women need it all because it makes us stay fresh and young till the next Easter!
So I should be thankful to all my realatives and friends, who actually meant it in a good way and wanted me to stay forever young! :-D
Pictures were taken from: http://www.prozeny.cz/pavlac/vase-recepty/moucniky-a-dezerty/31145-velikonocni-beranek and http://hobby.idnes.cz/jak-uplest-pomlazku-z-8-nebo-11-proutku-navod-fe2-/hobby-domov.aspx?c=A120326_114830_hobby-domov_mce
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Noooooooooo. Don't tell me you call that stick karabáč :D :D :D (we call it tatar or pomlázka, BTW) Ok, tradition and dialect is changing with region, I see. Anyway, I didn't know that there, where you live, boys pour with water and spray parfume!! I thought that only in Slovakia. But the truth Moravia-Silesia is close to it. :D ;)
BTW, very nice new avatar, do not change it with your Zombie again :P
Brother Samuel,
First please relax and rest as Luci is not criticizing or talking about you, all her gentle talk is granted to me, so do not bother defending yourself, bro.
Second, you talk about what you call it "exchange of insults", honestly I completely do not know what insult you are talking about since I expressed all my point of view in complete high polite way!
Luci, Ms Zombie,I'm surprised to find you are talking about that Czech republic is not western and and and....
I already know that it isn't, honestly we (Arabs) when we say the word "western", we with all respect never give a pin care or look to the middle nor to the east of Europe, we mean only western Europe and north America with the word "western".
And I even did not mean all of western people in my comment earlier, I only said and meant "sick" ones among them, not all of them.
So, when I said "double standards WORLD", I in my second reply explained in details that with my word "world" I meant only the sick people in western (the western which I defined earlier above), the western who puts Arabs (and even may also put Czech people with such like of traditions in the blog, but they do not do it with Czech people or any other nation, they do it only with Arabs) under their sick microscope.....And again I'm repeating it that I'm not asking them to misjudge Czech or any other nation as they do with Arabs, but I'm asking them to do not misjudge Arabs just like they do not misjudge others.
I did not make a big issue from nothing, I just said a simple opinion in only one single line in a very elegant way, then I found you responding saying "go next door with such comments"! ..... very elegant way of you too! :D .........though I was not meaning you nor your people as I explained and still explaining...
luci, I didn't talk about the Czech Republic. I was only shown that the issue of the double standard, the responsible for it, is the governments of Western countries.
The issue of Berber you did not speak about it, I explained that it is not related to your blog. All I care that there should be mutual respect between members and that the English club should not be a place to exchange insults.
Dear brother Just User,
I completely agree with you that the Western world is practiced double standards policy with the Arabs in a lot of political problems in order to achieve its reconciliation. As for the description of the Arabs that they are Berbers, I do not agree at all on this. They critical the way of the slaughter of sheep in the "al-Adha feast" and I ask them aren't you eating Mutton?
But with all respect to you, should not be at all anyone of us attacks any other member on this site and to insult him. Nor should not make any person, bears the responsibility for global policies he is not responsible for it.
I'm sure from your good intention, so please let's all work together to promote peace and love among all members, and when we differ in opinion, we remain friends.
Thank you very much.
Dear brother Samuel,
My point was positive one; my point was that world (especially western) misjudge Arabs with alike traditions (in other celebrations I meant, not in Easter's) assuming them as barbarians, while those sick people never assume others (other than Arabs) in same terms and norms, that doesn't mean that I wanted them to assume those lovely Czech people with such funny and lovely costumes mentioned in this blog in the same sick misjudging way........NO, NEVER......I just wanted and tried to point out that if they assume Arabs as barbarians for such alike costumes and then must (not "should") assume Czech people in the same way and hence both misjudging way (in my view) are corrupted.......But when those sick people put only Arabs under microscope, so they are double standards.............meaning that they should take out both Arabs and any other peoples out from under their sick microscopic way of misjudging.
Hope you can feel my positive point in criticizing those sick misjudging people,,,not criticizing the lovely Czech people here.....and the very proof of my intention is that I hit "like" button for this blog!.....You see, that my point was very positive, but just there are some people who are ready only to retaliate as they can't think but negatively about others' innocent intentions!
Thank you, brother, for giving me the chance explaining it explicitly.....though I wished people could have thought positively with no need for explanations nor investigating intentions of others all the time......I really appreciate you.
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