The Easter we celebrate today is a mix of Pagan and Christian customs and superstitions. Many people do not realize that their actions on this day, such as wearing something new, are ancient superstitions.
1. Wear Something New
It has long been a tradition to wear a new dress of suit on Easter Sunday. This custom goes back to the superstition that states that it is bad luck not to wear at least one new thing on Easter Sunday.
2. Eat Those Easter Eggs!
Among the Pennsylvania Germans, it was believed that if a person kept an Easter egg (colored, hard-boiled egg) for more than a year, someone in the family would surely die.
3. Easter Snow
If Christmas was unseasonably warm, then Easter would have snow.
4. Wind
If it is windy on Easter Sunday, it will be windy for the rest of the year.
5. Easter Morning Dew
Long ago, women would wash their faces with the Easter morning dew to increase their beauty. The same is also done on May Day.
6. Color Eggs Before Easter
In some parts of the world it is very unlucky to paint hard-boiled eggs on Easter day. Instead, the eggs must be colored on some other day before the holiday.
7. Protect Crops
Easter eggs, painted scarlet, were planted in fields, gardens, and vineyards to protect the crops from bad weather.
8. Baptized on Easter
An infant who is born on Good Friday and baptized on Easter will become a great healer.
9. Debts
One strange superstition says that if you want to pay off your debts quickly, you must eat duck for Easter dinner.
10. Lamb
To see a lamb on Easter morning brings good luck.
