Day 80 Culture

hand painted wooden Easter eggs on a table

Pisanki are the decorated Easter eggs in Poland. Interesting fact: The oldest decorated eggs discovered on Polish lands come from the 10th century. The ritual of “writing” on the eggs was preformed during times of fasting (Lent) before Easter. Women would prepare the eggs 3-4 weeks before Easter on Wydmuszki (emptied eggshells).

The most interesting part for me is we always had these eggs up at Easter and I knew them as Polish Easter eggs. I looked up some history about them to have proper information for the photo. In the process I learned stuff about my own culture that I hadn’t previously known.

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