Lentorama 2019: Resurrect My Globe!
Day 37: Luxembourg
While most of the Easter celebrations are similar to those of their larger French and Dutch neighbors, there are two traditions specific to Luxembourg worth mentioning.
The first is specific to the town of Vianden. On Good Friday, they celebrate a festival called Jaudes, which refers to a bouquet made by boys out of flowers, twigs, ribbons, or whatever is on hand (the name specifically refers to the dog rose, but it doesn't seem to be a required element of the bouquet anymore). At noon, boys will take the bouquets and burn them, as a symbol of their displeasure with Judas.
On Easter Monday you have the Éimaischen, or feast of Emmaus. This historically coincided with the annual celebrations of the potter's guild, and eventually this developed into a festival. It's most notable now for the Péckvillercher, a terra cotta bird that you can blow into, making a sort of cuckoo sound.
17 April 2019
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