Tuesday Shrove Tuesday is a merry carnival. It is celebrated on Tuesday, the eve of Ash Wednesday, to mark the winter's end. Earlier, up until the beginning of the 20th century, the celebrations used to start on Sunday and continue for three days. Shrove Tuesday celebration was particularly popular in Zemaitija. In so- me Zemaitian villages these traditions have survived to the present day.
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.