POLAND
Poles celebrate Easter for two days. For Sunday breakfast, which often turns into lunch, they eat eggs, żurek (white borscht on bread sourdough), meat products, sweet mazurek cake, cheesecake (in Poland it is called sernik). A special custom in Poland is 'Śmigus-Dyngus' or Wet Monday – on this day Poles generously pour water on each other, but no one takes offense, everyone is pleased. It is believed that water brings health, luck, and profit to the household.
SWEDEN
In Sweden, Easter begins to be celebrated a week before its arrival: Swedes compete in lighting large bonfires, and to scare away evil spirits, they place yellow chicks with colored feathers everywhere. "Traditional" Easter eggs are alien to them; they make them their own way – from cardboard, and inside each egg they put a candy.
AUSTRALIA
Australian Easter is four days of outdoor recreation, starting on Good Friday and ending on Monday. In Australia, the symbol of this holiday is not the traditional Easter bunny, but the local bilby. The festive table features a dish called Pavlova: a meringue cake with kiwi, strawberries, pineapples, and tangerines.
USA
The traditional American Easter dinner consists of ham with pineapple, potatoes, fruit salad, and vegetables. In America, Easter street processions take place, and hundreds of children come with Easter baskets full of painted eggs and roll them down the lawn near the White House in Washington.
PHILIPPINES
To celebrate Easter in the Philippines, you need to be mentally prepared. The fact is that on Good Friday, men in the village of San Pedro Cutud, as well as in several other places in the country, perform a crucifixion ritual. They nail volunteers to wooden crosses, and also flog with rods anyone who wants to atone for their sins. However, there are more humane Easter traditions in the Philippines. For example, a colorful event is held annually: a huge paper flower is built in the square, on the petals of which sit large mechanical birds.
FRANCE
In France, Easter is the ringing of bells and a family feast with roast chicken, chocolate pastries, and daffodils in a vase. French people decorate their homes with ribbons, garlands, and bells. It is not known where this tradition came from, but on Easter Monday, wives can beat their husbands almost with impunity, because men have the right to react only the next day.
UNITED KINGDOM
In the United Kingdom, not only chicken eggs are used at Easter, but also goose, quail, and even ostrich eggs. In the evening, there is a carnival with a huge number of brightly dressed participants. There is also a traditional game called 'Egg-shackling' (toss the egg): parents write the child's name on raw eggs, put all the eggs in a sieve, and start tossing them. The child whose egg breaks last wins.
Based on materials from Polskie Radio.