TSOK-TSOK THE EGG

Today we are going to Ukraine to taste some exotic superstitions. Many of them came to my culture from ancient times together with the pysankarstvo. A pysanka is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk ornaments using a wax-resist method. 

It is believed that the fate of the world depends upon the pysanka. As long as the pysankarstvo lives, the world will exist and abandoned evil – a horrible serpent forever chained to a cliff – will not break free.

You must be very careful as a witch can steal your pysanka and use its shell to gather dew to dry up a cow's milk or to poke people and sicken them. The egg shell had to be ground up carefully or broken into pieces and tossed into a running stream. 

Did you know? 

• Blessed pysanky are still used to find demons hidden in the dark corners of a house;

•      The older people should be given pysanky with dark colors and rich ornaments as they have already lived long and filled life;

•      The young people should be given predominantly white pysanky because their life only started;

•      A girl should never give her boyfriend a pysanka without an ornament on the top and at the bottom of an egg as the boyfriend would soon lose his hair;

•      Everybody who tramples on a pysanka will be punished by God with a variety of diseases.

 I hope you found something interesting for you. Keep an eye on your eggs and see you next week in Germany. 

Check out this link about pysankarstvo in Canada.