It also improves health. Before or on the Easter morning everyone tries to rise as early as possible in order to catch the other family members sleeping, and whip them awake. This insures good health. The traditional Easter foods include eggs, marguciai, cheeses, farmer's cheese, cakes, ham, and oat sprouts. The meal starts with the exchange and hitting of marguciai.
Celebrations revolve around nature's most powerful forces.
Anyone who who leaps over the burning fire will be blessed with luck. High up, on the highest hill, a flaming wheel of birch bark is lit and rolled down the hill. Anyone who leaps back and forth over the burning ball will indeed be blessed with good luck too. Float your crown of flowers down the river and see how far it travels. The further it floats the sooner you will tie the knot.