Spring Has Sprung! (Gifts for EASTER and MORE!)

In Finland, Sweden and Denmark, traditions include egg painting and small children dressed as witches collecting candy door-to-door, in exchange for decorated pussy willows. This is a result of the mixing of an old Orthodox tradition (blessing houses with willow branches) and the Scandinavian Easter witch tradition. Brightly coloured feathers and little decorations are also attached to birch branches in a vase. This sounds like the Jewish traditions of cleaning house during Passover with a feather, giving gift baskets and dressing in costume during Purim, and dressing in costume for Halloween ! We're more alike than different, no matter where you are in the world.

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