Húsvéti Locsolkodás or Wet Monday Featured in
On Easter Monday, known in Hungary as "locsolkodás" or Shower Monday, almost every woman gets showered, and men get tasty treats from wet women. Such a ritual may sound very funny, but it has roots in pre-Christian pagan traditions. Earlier only girls of marriageable age were targets of men with buckets of water, but today any woman can get soaked on the street. Usually, of course, boys and men choose well-dressed women for such an occasion and in response they receive painted eggs, home-baked cookies, and alcoholic drinks.
Shower Monday is celebrated across the whole country, but the most traditional way of showering is still kept in the village of Hollókő, which belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Site and has houses and municipal buildings in the 17th-century style.
