In the past, and it may be hard to believe, people celebrated Easter more than Christmas. Yes, and I suggest you this week to visit the different traditions of Kàrwoch, Holy Week, until next Monday, Easter Monday. First of all, we must prepare for Easter, which often coincides with the real return of spring.
The Oschterbäum, the Easter tree, is a suitable decoration, with a few branches or ramifications of hedges, just keep the branches and tie them together, hang on them only colored ribbons, from which hang colored eggs, decorations in the shape of hares or chicks. It changes the atmosphere of a house, that.
You see, it’s not just for the Christmas tree in Alsace. Below, you can place your Easter nest, so that, not a hen, but the Oschterhààs, the Easter hare, comes to lay its colored eggs there. Yes, in Alsace, it is not the bells that bring the chocolate, but a hare, which is not a rabbit, as we say in French no, no rabbit.
It’s not the Oschterkenjele, it’s the Oschterhààs. Our hare is wild, furtive, and it needs a nice nest to attract it. In paper, felt, scraps of fabric, feathers, vegetable moss, raffia, there is no shortage of decorative ideas. And to be sure to be well spoiled, it is traditionally the children themselves who prepare it. So let your creativity do the talking!