Articles by Initial Letters
A tojás - I. rész
- Issue: 2019/2
- Starting page: 43
- Author: Juhász Katalin
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Eggs: the beginning of creation, symbol of fertility, and one of Hungary’s basic foods. As Easter approaches we consider the egg, its appearance in art and myth through the ages, its use in local Hungarian folk custom, painting eggs at Easter, and games played with eggs (tossing, rolling, egg dance, etc). In many places an egg was cracked into a baby’s first bath water so that the child healthy and pretty. Raw eggs, boiled, fried, stuffed and scrambled eggs are mentioned. Several variations of simple soups made with an egg cracked into it are described. By ethnographer Juhász Katalin.