Each person must be clean at the start of spring. At Easter water is said to have supernatural powers. If in former times people from Kranjska washed themselves in spring water on the morning of Holy Saturday, they would be protected even against the plague that year. Girls would wash themselves on that day to be more beautiful. Most important are ofcourse the eggs - both coloured and decorated.
Eggs are the ancient symbol for life and fertility.
In Slovenia Easter eggs were at first only red or yellow. Colouring and decorating eggs has developed into one of the most attractive forms of folk art in Slovenia. Their variety indeed reflects the diversity of Slovenia. In some places the eggs are decorated with wax, in others oil, they may have motifs engraved on them with a small knife or they are coloured and decorated with various cloverleaves, grasses and other leaves. An Easter egg was at one time a love letter as well - on Easter Monday a boy would receive one from a shy girl who didn't dare tell him that she liked him.