Here and Now 01/04/2002

Easter in Moravian Slovakia is a holiday for which people are preparing there. Baking sweets, ironing a costume or whip stitching eggs with coloured cotton yarns. Boys are making whips with which they are going to thrash girls. The village has been living singing and dancing since the morning. Visits to girls cannot do without a treat; they drink plum brandy or wine. Easter, as a celebration of th…