Girls and young women have been drenched with buckets of water as part of an ancient Easter tradition in Hungary, the Euro News website reports today (April 22, 2019).
The so-called "watering" of the women on Easter Monday is an old fertility rite that dates back to pre-Christian times.
Visitors watched volunteers get soaked at an open-air folk culture museum in Szentendre, just north of the Hungarian capital of Budapest today.
Young men pour water on unmarried women in order to keep them healthy and fertile, and to ensure that they do not "wilt," so the tradition goes.
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