Men disguise themselves as women, and vice versa. Shrove Tuesday celebrations were first recorded in Prussia in the 15th century. In one hand she usually holds a flail and in the other a broom, for she cannot make up her mind whether she should continues flailing last year's harvest or start sweeping the yard and do the spring cleaning. Shrove Tuesday celebrations are full of humour, jokes, superstitions and fortune telling. It is a popular theatrical, held before the busy summer season.
Carnival members deride farmers who lag behind with their winter chores, old maids and bachelors.
Shrove Tuesday is a pancake day, for the pancake is a symbol of the sun. But this is also a day for universal gluttony. People glut themselves on the last rich meat dishes, for example, pork stewed with peas, before the long Lent fasting period. The Jew came to substitute Kanapinis, and the Gypsy took the place of Lasininis. Other figures of the carnival include animals - a horse, a goat, a stork, the devil, death.