For two young women living in Csíksereda, Easter is unimaginable without written, red eggs, so every year they start writing eggs long before the holiday - preferably together. Perhaps the only thing that has changed over the years is that now Edith's two small children also monitor the busy hands, imperceptibly absorbing this ancient knowledge passed down from generation to generation. Just like their mother, grandmother, great-grandmother
Pots full of beeswax are warming up on the edge of the stove, and there are several kesice waiting to be taken in hand. Edit cooks eggs, Bea puts wood on the fire, soon more eggs will be on the stove. On the small table in front of them, ready-boiled, white-shelled eggs are waiting in a bowl covered with a tablecloth, and in another bowl, male eggs decorated with different patterns are smiling at us. Eggs written on Good Friday are eternal "We didn't even go to school yet, but we already wrote eggs, because as soon as we got older, our mother started teaching. We always got the egg with a cracked shell, and we studied and poked at it. That's how we grew up. Both our mother and our 73-year-old grandmother write Easter eggs wonderfully to this day. And now I teach my children the same way, three-year-old Anita and five-year-old Zsolti. I remember when we were very small, and we also hustled there next to the egg-writing women."
For the brothers living in Csíksereda today, it is unimaginable that on Easter, the biggest holiday of Christianity, their table will not be decorated with eggs written by themselves.
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"We wish it when the roast lamb is already ready on Saturday night, but we will wait for the Sunday morning food consecration. I couldn't even imagine not writing eggs at Easter. This is important to my soul. And it is also very important that my children learn it. I am really glad that they are interested in it, they already know a few things. In the kindergarten group of my middle-grade son, we also held egg writing during Holy Week. You don't have to be upset if you don't succeed at first, because we didn't just learn it either, but we've been doing it since childhood, and little by little the crooked lines straightened out," says Edit with an encouraging smile.
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