Word: schmeckostern
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...neither a game nor a rite, not colorful or thrilling, and no more pointed than a jelly omelet. Only an oömancer could tell how it all began, or when-or why. Egg rolling is probably related to an old Central European custom called by the Germans Schmeckostern, or Easter smacks. The men beat the women with birch boughs on Easter Monday and the women beat the men with birch boughs on Easter Tuesday. (But in Durham, England, the men used to take off the women's shoes on Easter Monday and the women took...
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