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(Mirror.co.uk) Strange Strange Easter traditions from around the world include spanking women on Easter Monday   (mirror.co.uk) divider line 41
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nauteeprincess [TotalFark] 2009-04-11 09:36:48 PM  
Yes please!!!

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2009-04-11 10:05:27 PM  
Sometimes being Czech is just so awesome.

 
mike965 2009-04-12 01:49:53 AM  
That settles it I'm moving to Hungary and becoming a Christian so I can throw water on them and whip them with my homemade whip. Hopefully they will also all be wearing Catholic school girl skirts, if not I may have to encourage that tradition myself.

 
Euell Gibbons 2009-04-12 07:34:00 AM  
Dyngus Day!

 
boobsrgood [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 07:35:20 AM  
Euell Gibbons: Dyngus Day!

Whacking Day!

 
Nick Nostril 2009-04-12 07:44:50 AM  
Now there's a tradition I can get behind.

 
Hester Prynne 2009-04-12 07:46:58 AM  
You don't have to move to Eastern Europe, just come to Buffalo for Dyngus Day!

 
AnnoyingKidNextDoor 2009-04-12 07:47:07 AM  
mike965: That settles it I'm moving to Hungary and becoming a Christian so I can throw water on them and whip them with my homemade whip. Hopefully they will also all be wearing Catholic school girl skirts, if not I may have to encourage that tradition myself.

Now is the best time to tell you that I am your new Siamese twin!

 
thisispete [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 07:54:30 AM  
From a newspaper article (new window) in 1886:

In Lancashire, and in Cheshire, Staffordshire, and in Warwickshire, and perhaps in other counties, the ridiculous custom of "lifting" or "heaving" is practised. On Easter Monday the men lift the women, and on Easter Tuesday the women lift or heave the men. The process is performed by two lusty men or women joining- their hands across each others's wrists; then, making the person to be heaved sit down on their arms, they lift him up aloft two or three times, and often carry him several yards along a street.

 
vudukungfu 2009-04-12 07:55:59 AM  
let's keep the spirit of easter alive all year!

 
Froman 2009-04-12 08:06:53 AM  
The whipping custom in Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia apparently does do what legend says.

 
boobsrgood [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 08:07:20 AM  
thisispete: The process is performed by two lusty men or women joining- their hands across each others's...

Grammar aside, it was good up to there.

 
Xlr8urfark 2009-04-12 08:07:31 AM  
The youngest coming in to work on Easter is one tradition I could do without right now. Dear lord there's coffee sludge 3 inches thick in the bottom of the coffee pot. *sigh*

 
svenbertil 2009-04-12 08:08:01 AM  
over in Australia they prefer to use their native marsupial, the Bilby.

What? That's an odd name. I'd have called them chazzwazzers.

 
Leonard of Quim 2009-04-12 08:14:46 AM  
And after the spanking, the oral sex!

 
Ambitwistor 2009-04-12 08:17:11 AM  
Does this practice result in hot cross buns?

 
mark12A 2009-04-12 08:25:19 AM  
Phffft! Amateurs! When I was a kid I used to watch the whippin' and the crucifying that goes on every Easter in the Philippines. Prolly why I'm weird....

 
boobsrgood [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 08:25:25 AM  
Leonard of Quim: And after the spanking, the oral sex!

Couldn't I have just a little peril?

 
The Voice of Doom 2009-04-12 08:26:40 AM  
In Germany the tradition is to create an Easter fire out of used Christmas trees from the winter.

Never heard of that one.
Easter fire yes, but the Christmas tree bit?

People with an oven will probably use the tree as firewood at some point in time, so some municipalities might do the same with the collected trees and prefer to use them instead of felling and drying new ones.

 
SirEattonHogg 2009-04-12 08:27:58 AM  
mark12A Quote 2009-04-12 08:25:19 AM
Phffft! Amateurs! When I was a kid I used to watch the whippin' and the crucifying that goes on every Easter in the Philippines. Prolly why I'm weird....


I was gonna mention those nutcases in the Philippines are missing from the article.

 
soseussme 2009-04-12 08:34:26 AM  
The Czechs don't throw water so much but the Polish do. Polish girls I've known wouldn't go out on Easter because total strangers would douse them.
The Czech whipping tradition is pretty much limited to the girls the guy knows (Note to feminists: Czech females consider the word "woman" to be an insult that implies being too old to be attractive -- my attempts to be PC made one friend of mine incredibly upset, both angry and embarrassed. Oops!).
Czech girls, after being whipped, are supposed to present the guy with an egg.
It all happens before noon so I usually missed it the years I spent there.

 
Froman 2009-04-12 08:34:59 AM  
mark12A: Phffft! Amateurs! When I was a kid I used to watch the whippin' and the crucifying that goes on every Easter in the Philippines. Prolly why I'm weird....

How else are you supposed to appease the bloodlust of our angry gods?

 
Omnivorous 2009-04-12 08:40:19 AM  
over in Australia they prefer to use their native marsupial, the Bilby.

I'd never heard of a bilby. Ugly little guys.

/But what does a Pastafarian do on Easter?

 
thisispete [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 08:42:35 AM  
soseussme: The Czechs don't throw water so much but the Polish do. Polish girls I've known wouldn't go out on Easter because total strangers would douse them.
The Czech whipping tradition is pretty much limited to the girls the guy knows (Note to feminists: Czech females consider the word "woman" to be an insult that implies being too old to be attractive -- my attempts to be PC made one friend of mine incredibly upset, both angry and embarrassed. Oops!).
Czech girls, after being whipped, are supposed to present the guy with an egg.
It all happens before noon so I usually missed it the years I spent there.


I wonder if it grew out of imitating a priest's use of an aspergillum in Mass at Easter to splash the congregation with holy water and bless them.

 
Xlr8urfark 2009-04-12 08:43:57 AM  
Omnivorous: /But what does a Pastafarian do on Easter?

hide meatballs instead of easter eggs

 
hockeychick 2009-04-12 08:52:17 AM  
Xlr8urfark: Omnivorous: /But what does a Pastafarian do on Easter?

hide meatballs instead of easter eggs


Play find the salami?

Sorry about having to work man. I remember those days too when I worked at a radio station. Overnights. On an easy listening station. The only thing that kept me awake was the 3 inches of radio station sludge in the coffee pot. The kind where you have to cut yourself off a slice. It's kind of an acquired taste.

 
Space_Poet 2009-04-12 08:55:03 AM  
If you want strange just read about what Easter really is. This has nothing to do with Jesus. Just another holiday stolen by Christianity.

 
Xlr8urfark 2009-04-12 09:01:19 AM  
hockeychick: Xlr8urfark: Omnivorous: /But what does a Pastafarian do on Easter?

hide meatballs instead of easter eggs

Play find the salami?

Sorry about having to work man. I remember those days too when I worked at a radio station. Overnights. On an easy listening station. The only thing that kept me awake was the 3 inches of radio station sludge in the coffee pot. The kind where you have to cut yourself off a slice. It's kind of an acquired taste.


Thanks for the encouragement. I gave up on the coffee, all we have are plastic silverware and after 2 broken spoons I gave up.

 
Oldiron_79 2009-04-12 09:19:06 AM  
No "running of the jew" from Borat?

 
ArmyWarVet 2009-04-12 09:28:29 AM  
Space_Poet,

You just couldn't resist going there could you? What's the matter, not enough anti-Christian articles on Fark on any given day for you to spit bile all over? Thanks for ruining a thread that was about spanking women (hot cross buns) and splashing them with water (gets the HIGH BEAMS going), now go fark yourself in the arse with a dried up corn cob. Don't forget to douche out with turpentine afterwards.

 
Thakh 2009-04-12 09:31:54 AM  
Since this would be useless without pics, here's what's actually being used for the spanking:

img.bleskovky.sk

Roaming spank-gangs:
novot.webconsult.sk

And last but not least, here's some interracial easter chicks (pops, nsfw)

/slovakia

 
ScreamingInDigital 2009-04-12 09:35:35 AM  
FTFA: "The spanking is supposed to be symbolic and according to legend, females should be spanked in order to keep their health and beauty during the next year. It doesn't sound too fun for the women!"

They obviously don't know the right women.

 
jekakahn 2009-04-12 09:35:55 AM  
LOL! What are the buckets for?

/cue can has bucket thread

 
tmcottle 2009-04-12 09:46:44 AM  
Thakh: Since this would be useless without pics, here's what's actually being used for the spanking:



Roaming spank-gangs:


And last but not least, here's some interracial easter chicks (pops, nsfw)

/slovakia


Them are some interracial easter chicks!!!

LOL

 
me3512 2009-04-12 11:06:59 AM  
In poland the tradition is called "wet monday" It is OK and acceptable to soak ANYBODY any time. Tomorrow my gal is going to get a bucket of water to wake up to, and if my neighbor is wearing white while walking the dog she will to. drooooooooooooooool!

 
ciocia [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 11:37:56 AM  
Hester Prynne: You don't have to move to Eastern Europe, just come to Buffalo for Dyngus Day!

...or the east side of Detroit, where Dingus Day (which is practiced in Poland), is also celebrated as "switch day." When I was young, this meant boys hit girls with water balloons.

//and no, we didn't wear t-shirts for that. Shame on you for thinking it.

 
Arkanaut 2009-04-12 12:15:06 PM  
Nick Nostril: Now there's a tradition I can get behind.

I also approve of getting behind. This tradition, that is.

 
Focusin 2009-04-12 12:31:05 PM  
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Surool [TotalFark] 2009-04-12 05:38:46 PM  
Who could really confine the joy of spanking women in just one day? I believe spanking is a year-round tradition.

 
smokesteam 2009-04-12 11:38:57 PM  
Space_Poet: If you want strange just read about what Easter really is. This has nothing to do with Jesus. Just another holiday stolen by Christianity.

Becha a dollar all these can be traced back to pagan ritual. Now I gotta see if its possible to get some spanking included in the Passover Hagadah, you know, to remind the girls of what it was like to be a slave in Egypt...

 
DupeOfURL 2009-04-13 03:25:23 PM  
It has been said, but not linked...

http://www.dyngusdaybuffalo.com/

The Voice of Doom I would recommmend AGAINST burning Christmas trees indoors. The resins from the pine will clog up your flue - and that's if you're lucky enough they don't catch fire. Indoors - burn hardwoods.

 
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