Spring in Transylvania: Wake Up and Splash (or Be Splashed)<br />POLAND 200 Miles UKRAINE SLOVAKIA MOLDOVA HUNGARY Sancraieni TRANSYLVANIA REGION ROMANIA SERBIA Bucharest Black Sea Adriatic Sea Danube BULGARIA TURKEY POLAND<br />200 Miles UKRAINE SLOVAKIA MOLDOVA HUNGARY Sancraieni TRANSYLVANIA REGION ROMANIA SERBIA Bucharest Danube Black Sea BULGARIA TURKEY APRIL 18, 2017<br />Mr. Gal said that It’s an important event for us<br />On Monday morning, about two dozen young men in traditional attire — high black boots, black hats, white shirts<br />and cream-colored trousers resembling riding breeches — gathered at the home of Koppany Gal, 23, who works at a hospital.<br />By PALKO KARASZAPRIL 18, 2017<br />SANCRAIENI, Romania — Young men in Sancraieni have risen early on Easter Monday for as long as anyone can remember.<br />"The tradition is kept to varying degrees from village to village, depending on the degree of isolation<br />and the ethnic groups." Easter has become secularized in most of Europe, with a steady decline in religion and churchgoing.<br />They could expect to eat and drink well that day: Girls<br />and their mothers around the village typically spend the weekend preparing pastries, drinks and snacks, including eggs colored red.<br />The men would recite a poem ending, "May I pour?" After one woman consented with a cheerful if predictable<br />"yes," two men held her as a third threw cold water from a bucket rimmed with red carnations.
