Lentorama 2019: Resurrect My Globe!
Day 21: Switzerland
Three egg-related traditions from the Swiss.
1. Rather than the Easter Bunny, an Easter cuckoo brings the eggs for Swiss children to hunt. Why this is I have no idea, but the association of Switzerland and cuckoo clocks springs to mind.
2. Heartier souls can participate in an Easter egg hunt swim in Lake Greifensee, putting a bit of a polar bear swim spin on the event. It's a fairly new event, but seems to have caught on.
3. On Easter Monday in Zurich you'll find people participating in Zwanzgerle, where adults throw 20 cent coins at eggs held by children. If the coin breaks the shell and lodges in the egg the adult wins the egg and gets their coin back. Otherwise, the kid gets to keep the money. Apparently it's pretty hard to get the coin to lodge in the egg, so it's a bit of a money-maker for the kids.
29 March 2019
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